Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-05-26

General my officers wish to come
in and pay their respects to you, If
you will receive them
Certainly, General, shall be nap-
by to see them. And you have hosts
of old friends here who will be glad
to meet you again" replied General
Grant
The yeranda was by this time
crowded with officers of both armies
Those of General Grants staff were
first presented to General Lee, whom
few of them had ever SEEN Naturally
there was the same curiosity on their
part to see the confederate : leader
That the confederate officers had to
see General Grant. Robert T. Lin
coin. speaking of it many years after
wards, said:
81 remember that /. for one, was
curious to see General Lee. When
We went in from the veranda looking
pretty rough and feeling awfully tired
from our weeks march, winding up
with the ride from daylight till near
ly one O'Clock that day, | remember
we'll the impression made upon me
by General Lees fine figure in his
brilliant uniform of gray and gold
There hadn't been much ceremony
among us fellows outside, and
thought the Introduction quite formal
AS the youngest officer with General
Grant and lowest in rank, | was at
the end of his staff, and was prob
ably more impressed by General Lees
appearance than the others. At any
rate, that part of the scene always
comes to my mind more wildly than
anything else. There were fifteen in
our staff and General Lee had four
teen on his. SO the staff officers filled
up the room, and a good many soon
went back to the veranda where 1t
was cooler and less crowded.
After it was over, l remember that
went off and slept the rest of me
afternoon We did not realize our
fatigue until after the business was
finished"
After the details had been compler-
ed for paroling General Lees troops,
General Grant writes in his Memoirs:
Lee and | then separated as cor
daily as we had met. he returning
to his own lines, and all went into
bivouac for the night at Appomat-
tox. Soon after Lees departure
telegraphed to Washington as fof-
lows:
Headquarters, Appomattox c. H., Va,
April 8, 1865. 80 p m.
Hon. E. NJ. Stanton, ),
Secretary of War, Washington.
General Lee surrendered the army
of Northern Virginia this afternoon
on terms proposed by myself The
accompanying additional correspond
ence will show the conditions fully.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieut. General.
In the Memoirs, General Grant then
adds
when the news of the surrender
III Sl 1CdCH6Q our lines. our men COM
menced firing a salute of a hundred
guns in hOnOr of the victory. | at
once sent word, however, to have it
stopped The confederates were now
our prisoners and we did not want
to eXult over their DOWNFALL
The following morning General
Grant and General Lee met for the
last time. Of this meeting General
Grant writes in the Memoirs:
Il thought I would like to see Cen
eral Lee again, so | rode out beyond
our lines toward his Headquarters.
preceded by bugler and a staff Of
ficer carrying white flag. Lee soon
mounted his horse, seeing who it
was, and met me. We had there be-
tween the lines, sitting on horse
back, a very pleasant CONVEX
sation of over half an hour, in
the course of which Lee said to me
That the South was big country,
and that we might have to march