The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-04-30

It was just 40 years ago at ABOUT
noon today that, sitting in the dining
room of the home of Wilmer McClean,
he saw through the open doors which
lied into the front room Generals Grant
and Lee agree to the terms which end
ed the Civil War.
Colonel Ward is one of the very
few survivors-if not the only survl-
vor-who witnessed that event A for
mer resident of Baltimore, who prac-
ticed law here for many years, who
for a time took a prominent part In
politics and who once ran against A..
Lee Knott for the Office OF States At
torney, Colonel Ward now makes his
home in Philadelphia. He is visiting
in Baltimore at present and, caught
in a reminiscent mood yesterday, ne
told the story of the surrender over
again. He was in the riots In connec-
ton with the movement through Bal
timore on the Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment on April 10Th, 1861, and was
one of the first to leave Baltimore to
serve in the Confederate army when
| the war broke out.
In Service Throughout War.
He went to the front as adjutant OF
Bradley Johnson's first Maryland Reg
the. war, and when the Confederate
army withdrew from Pittsburgh on
that Sunday night in April to start
on the march which was to end at
Appomattox Court House, he was a
member of the staff of Gen. Cadmus
Wilcox, in Longstreets's Corps.
Telling of the meeting, Colonel
Ward said:
II didn't bother about breakfast. |
went into the dining room and through
| the open door | saw General Lee sit
ting in an arm chair in full uniform
and wearing the sword which English
| officers had given him. On sofa
-ear by sat Col. Charles Marshall,
General Lees secretary, and Colonel
Babcock, Of the Union Army.
Presently there came stir outside
and General Grant came up the steps.
He wore blue blouse and his clothes
were quite muddy. He wore no insig
MA of rank. He entered the room and
jeneral Lee arose. General Grant
apoloGized for having kept General
lee waiting, saying that he had only
just received his last note.
Ill Eyes on General Lee.
general Grant had been accompa-
lied into the room by a number of
MS officers, among them Sheridan,
Ord, Gibbons, Seth Williams and Gen
reals secretary, a dark-skinned man
who looked like an Indian. Gen
eral Grant now asked his secretary
20 draw up table and The General
himself wrote the terms of surrender.
While this was going on every eye
was centered on Lee. He was so calm
that an observer might have thought
that Grant was surrenderi'l:c 20 Lee.
When the paper was handed to Lee
he took his glasses from their case:
wiped them carefully and read in sill
cnce, smiling once.
"'General Grant, said he, these
terms are most magnanimous. But
you have left out one word. You say
5hat the officers shall retire to their
homes and remain until properly
you have left out the word exchang-
ed
"'I beg PARDON answered Grant;
| if you will allow me, will insert it.
"There was some talk about the
horses, which were the private prop
erty of the officers and men. General
Grant agreed that these should be tax
en- with them. They will help in their
spring piowing,' he said.
"When General Lee left, after hav
ing been introduced to Grant Off
GERS, not a Union officer followed him
to the threshold. They seemed para
lyzed by his calm dignity"