Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee, Battlefield Copy of Terms of Surrender
date: label: date made
content: 1865
notes: label: Description
content: Once General Robert E. Lee's Army had been cut off from its supplies, the Confederate Army was limping along. By the spring of 1865, Lee had no choice but to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia. This copy of Grant's letter outlining the terms of surrender was made by W. H. Atkinson, a clerk in the Adjutant General's office of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The two commanders met at the McLean home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. There Grant and Lee formalized and signed the surrender.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Appomattox
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0214.04
label: accession number
content: 2012.0214
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0214.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 8 in; 25.4 cm x 20.32 cm