Year: 1877

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An interesting contribution to ths


current discussion about the circum.


stances of General Lees surrender


was made by General George H


Sharpe, formerly Of the army of the


Potomac. in a Decoration Day address


at Mt. Kisco. New York. We give


the story as General Sharpe related il


Il remember-and il was recalled


To me tonight in conversation, when


the name of General Grant came up
i'm the course of conversation-the


wonderful scene that transpired In


that little place in Virginia, on the


sth Of April, 1865. II was late in the


afternoon when it became known that


General Lee had sent word for Gener-


al Grant 10 surrender to him. II was


between 2and s o'clock when we met


I'm the little room in the house where


the surrender took place. I know


there is belief that the surrender


took place under an apple-tree, where


Grant and Lee met and exchanged a


few words. The surrender took place


in the left-hand room in that old


fashioned double house. The house


had a large piazza which ran along


the whole length of il. 1t was one of


those ordinary Virginia houses with a


passage way running through the cen
tire of it. In the little room where
the meeting took place sat two young
men-one a great-grandson of Chief
Justice Marshall, Of the Supreme
Court, reducing to writing the terms
of the surrender on behalf of Robert
+. Lee the other, u man with dusky
countenance-a great-nephew Of that
celebrated chief, Red Jacket-acting
under General Grant. The two Were
reducing to writing the terms of the
surrender of the Army of Northern
Virginia to the Army of the Potomac.
Gathered around the room were sew
eral officers of whom was one.


AT some distance apart sat two
men; one the most remarkable Of his
day and generation. The larger and
older Of the two was the most striking
in his appearance. His hair was
as white as the driven snow. There
was not speck upon his coat not
spot upon those gauntlets that he
wore, which were as fair and bright
as a lady's glove. That was Robert
Z. Lee. The other was Ulysses S.
Grant, whose appearance contrastcd
strangely to that Of Lee; his boots
were nearly covered with mud; one
button of his coat-that is, one button
hole was not where it should have
been-had clearly gone astray; and
he wore no sword; while Lee was full
ly and faultlessly equipped. The con-
versation was not rapid by any means.
Everybody felt the overpowering in
fluence of the scene. Every one pres
ent felt they were witnessing the
proceedings between the two chief
actors in one of the most remarkable
transactions of this nineteenth centu-
ry. The words that passed between
Grant and Lee were few, General
Grant -endenvoring TO apologize for
not being fully equipped, and MOTTO
ing the faultless appearance Of Lee
lit In l. nNnfu u,{1, a
General Lee, l have no sword; l
have been riding all night And Lee,
with that coldness Of manner, and all
the pride-almost haughtiness-which.
after all, became him wonderfully
well, never made any reply, but in a
cold, formal manner bowed. And
General Grant, in the endeavor to
take away the great awkwardness Of
the scene, said: i don't always wear
a sword, because sword is a very in
thing That was a re-
markable thing for him to say, con-
that he was In the presence
Of one who was about to surren-
der his sword. Lee only bowed again.
trying to relieve the awkward
ness Of the occasion, inquired: Gen
eral Lee, what became of that white
horse you rode In Mexico? He might
not be dead yet he was not SO old?'
Lee bowed ooldly, and re-
piled: Il left him at the White
House on the Pamunky river. and l
have not seen him since There was
one moment when there was whis-
pered conversation between Grant
and Lee which nobody in the room
heard"


1.-THE surrender took the form of
these letters were
all signed in due form, by the chief
actors, In the presence Of each other.
when tho terms of surrender
had all been arranged, and the surren-
der made, Lee arose, cold and proud,
and bowed to every person In the
room on our side. remember each
one ofus thought he had been special
~ bowed to. And then he went out
and passed down the little square In
front of the house, and bestrode the
gray horse that carried him all over
Virginia; and when he had gone
away, we learned what the whispered
had been about. Gener-
al Grant called his officers about and
said: You go to the oath, and you to
the 5th,' and SO on, naming the corps,
and ask every man who has three ra-
tions to turn over two Of them. Go
to the commissaries and go to the
etc. General Lees
army is on the point Of starvation ?
And 25, 600 rations were carried to the
army Of Northern Virginia. ~ Phita-
despAia Times.


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