Essentials of United States history . ofwas at church when a messenger handed him a informing him that Lee and his army were leavingRichmond. He at once left the church and hurriedly de-parted with his family and Cabinet from the city. Thatnight the whole of the Confederate army left Petersburg andRichmond, and the next morning, Monday, April 3, 1865,the Federal troops marched into the Confederate capital. 400. Lee surrenders at Appomattox. — Lee pushed toward Lynchburg, intending to make his way to North 310 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Carolina and join Johnston,
Essentials of United States history . ofwas at church when a messenger handed him a informing him that Lee and his army were leavingRichmond. He at once left the church and hurriedly de-parted with his family and Cabinet from the city. Thatnight the whole of the Confederate army left Petersburg andRichmond, and the next morning, Monday, April 3, 1865,the Federal troops marched into the Confederate capital. 400. Lee surrenders at Appomattox. — Lee pushed toward Lynchburg, intending to make his way to North 310 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Carolina and join Johnston, who was then in command of theentire Confederate forces opposing Sherman. Grant at oncemoved to intercept him. Sheridan with his cavalry passedbeyond and cut off Lees retreat to Lynchburg. The braveConfederate general was practically surrounded. Nothing re-mained for him but to capitulate. The two great generals, in-deed one might say the two greatest generals of America, met,and Lee proposed to surrender the remnants of his The McLean House. Where the surrender tCKik place. So it came to pass that on the 9th of April, 1865, the soldiersof the Army of Northern Virginia laid down their arms andturned their faces homeward. Nearly thirty thousand officers and soldiers were paroled not to take up arms against the UnitedStates until exchanged. Grants terms were the following:The officers to give their individual paroles not to take uparms against the government of the United States untilpro])erly exchanged; and each company or regimental com-mander to sign a hke parole for the men of his arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and LINCOLNS FIRST ADMINISTRATION (1861-1865) 311 stacked and turned over to the officer appointed by me toreceive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of theofficers, nor their private horses nor baggage. This done,each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home,not to be disturbed b}^ the United
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