The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-10

q by Review OF Reviews company.
Mclean House, Where Grant and Lee
Met.
sponsibilTty.'
The note brought under flag of truce
to the Federal lines was General Lees
reply to an earlier communication from
General Grant The proposition had
been made and accepted for a suspen-
sion Of hostilfties pending negotiations
looking to the surrender Of Lees army.
During the interval occupied by these
arrangements a stately, gray bearded
Federal officer approached Colonel Ell
bingham, who had been sent by Cen
eraI Gordon with the flag of truce, and
| drawing something doubtless a docu-
ment-from his side pocket said:
Colonel, have been requested while
waiting to extend to you the courtesies
of this side of the hne''-at the same
| time pronering the supposed document,
which proved to be silver flask
Then Colonel EIIfngham recognized
| General Haveril1-the Mexican war
comrade Of his father under the old
flag, and his own and Gertrude's guar
| dian until the great sundering of sa
cred ties by the awful outbreak of civil
strife that now had spent itself after
| laying the country and its homes and
| industries desoIate-
| 1--WE meet under difficult circum-
stances, General Haver1Il,'' faltered
Bob, 'sbut-I trust there are no hard
| feelings?''
| ''None, Robert, my boy-quite the
| contrary. It is time, God knows! How
are Gertrude and"-
''She and Kerchival were married
last Sunday" answered Bob. He saw
/ Joo I,e, oil 81. nd
| his whole attitude stiffen, as if his
heart had suddenly frozen. So he has
tened to add, but we have not been
| able to locate Captain Heartsease, and
I hardly dare to speculate as to what
| has become of him.
| ''On that point 1 can give you well
come news" said General Haverill, re-
| covering his old cordiality He es-
capped while being transferred from
Danville and came to US at Petersburg
/ to rejoin the corps. But he was in no
condition for campaigning, so I sent
him on to Washington, where I have
no doubt Miss Jenny Buckthorn will
succeed in nursing him to recovery
| In due time word was received from
General Grant that he was coming on
Immediately to discuss terms of sur
render with the southern commander.
/
Lee near Appomattox Court House,
] lying under an apple tree upon bIan-
ket spread over some rails, whence
originated the report about Lees hav-
Ting surrendered beneath the apple
tree of Appomattox."
| The historic meeting Of the two gen
erals really took place at the house Of
! Wilmer Mclean, a Virginian, WAC, be
fore and during the first battle of
| Manassas, had resided at McLean's
ford. over Bull Run. and who had re-
moved thence to Appomattox express
| ~ in order to be out of the wars way.
General Grant, accompanied by Gen
| erals Sheridan and Ord and several
| other officers, including General Hav-
| Grill, presented a striking contrast to
/ General Lee, who, with a couple of
staff officers, awaited him in the old
fashioned parlOr of the Mclean resi-
dence.
Grant, forty-three years old, medium
sized and somewhat stoop shouIdered
wore no marks of rank except a gen
| erals shoulder straps on his blue fan
| mel blouse His trousers We're tucked
in his boots, and he had neither spurs
| nor sword. Lee, a dozen years older
| than his late adversary, had the stat
| ure and bearing of an old knight cru
I sader His hair and beard were silver
| gray He wore a plain but handsome
! uniform of Confederate gray, top boots
| with spurs, gauntIets and dress
| sword. This unaccustomed side arm
was a splendid blade engraved on one
| side with the motto aide tot ct Dieu
! t'aidera," on the other side with the
| inscription, reminiscent of the cam
| paign that had ended at Antietam,
General Robert E. Lee, from a Mary
IapdAE- 1891