Lee and his men were famished, exhausted and surrounded.

Grant, had relentlessly pursued the Confederate troops-this time, there would be no possible escape. The Union army, led by General Ulysses S. The South’s Army of Northern Virginia was in its final hours. He made his way to General George Armstrong Custer, who sent the rider back to his superiors with the following reply: “We will listen to no terms but that of unconditional surrender.” Sims, carried a message requesting a suspension of hostilities to allow negotiations of surrender to take place. Lee and John Gordon, the rider, Captain R.

One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 9, 1865, a lone Confederate horseman violently waving a white towel as a flag of truce galloped up to the men of the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry near Appomattox Court House and asked for directions to the headquarters of Major General Philip Sheridan. They made some small talk before Lee asked on what terms Grant would “receive the surrender of my army.” The two commanders sat across from each other Lee in a tall caned armchair and Grant in a swivel chair with a padded leather back next to a small oval side table.

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