. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . to await his , who came up afterwards, knew nothing of the flag of truce, but seeingthe enemy standing there he had charged them. I believe this was the lastfighting between the armies of General Lee and General Grant. All the world knows how Ceneral Lee surrendered, and all events incidentthereto, and I shall make no mention of them here. General Lee surrendered at Appomattox less than eight thousandmuskets. That tells the sto
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . to await his , who came up afterwards, knew nothing of the flag of truce, but seeingthe enemy standing there he had charged them. I believe this was the lastfighting between the armies of General Lee and General Grant. All the world knows how Ceneral Lee surrendered, and all events incidentthereto, and I shall make no mention of them here. General Lee surrendered at Appomattox less than eight thousandmuskets. That tells the story better than any words could tell it. Believingin our cause, though starved, naked, sick, wounded and dying, wre had foughtthe fight to the bitter end. I cannot end this sketch without expressing, as a part of the army ofGeneral Lee, my gratitude to, and admiration for General Grant, for hishumanity in feeding our starving people, and his magnanimity in grantingthem terms as liberal as if they had still been able to prolong the was a great soldier and wTas victorious on many fields, but this was thebrightest gem in the crown of his 640 THE STORY OF CHAPTER LXX. Some op the Medal Winners at Sailors Creek —W. L. Mundell, 5th Michigan Infantry —F. , 1st West Virginia Cavalry — A Mules Exploit in a Charge —E. M. Norton, 6th Michigan Cavalry — Charles A. Taggart, 37th Massa-chusetts Infantry — The Surrender of General Lee. WALTER L. MUNDELL was born in West Virginia. At the timeof the breaking out of the war he was living in Michigan, andenlisted in Company D, 3rd Michigan Infantry, April, 1861. Hewas discharged by expiration of service December, 1863. He en-listed on the following day as private in the same regiment. He was in the engagements at Blackburns Ford, Bull Run. Yorktown,Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. It was in this last engagement that Mundell was taken prisoner andcarried to Libby, where he remained twenty-four hours, and after
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