Edited sentence: Following the defeat and fall of Montgomery, the state capital, to Union troops, Eufaula did not engage in further combat.Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse and that the Civil War was over.Grierson, Commanding General of over 4,000 Union cavalrymen, was approaching from Clayton, Alabama, to the west.Lee had already surrendered to General Ulysses S.On April 29, 1865, a messenger galloped in with news that General Benjamin H.Pope entertained the general and his staff at dinner.Pope, Eufaula remained intact, its citizens unharmed.Pope, and other prominent citizens met General Grierson beyond College Hill with news that General Robert E.Thanks to the efforts of Dr.The Union troops marched peacefully across the river to camp in Georgetown, Georgia as Doctor Pope rushed back with barely enough time to disband the local militias to avoid conflict.Under a flag of truce, Eufaula's mayor, Doctor C.and Mrs