. The Civil War : the national view . ou o .2■go > o. fcj] > Ohhi] C rHE FOURTH YEAR OF THE WAR 469 as now written, but I will instruct the officers I shall ap-point to receive the paroles to let all the men who claim toown a horse or mule take the animals home with them towork their little farms. Lee now looked greatly relieved, and though anythingbut a demonstrative man, he gave every evidence of hisappreciation of the concession, and said: This will havethe best possible effect upon the men. It will be verygratifying, and will do much toward conciliating ourpeople. He then remarked, c
. The Civil War : the national view . ou o .2■go > o. fcj] > Ohhi] C rHE FOURTH YEAR OF THE WAR 469 as now written, but I will instruct the officers I shall ap-point to receive the paroles to let all the men who claim toown a horse or mule take the animals home with them towork their little farms. Lee now looked greatly relieved, and though anythingbut a demonstrative man, he gave every evidence of hisappreciation of the concession, and said: This will havethe best possible effect upon the men. It will be verygratifying, and will do much toward conciliating ourpeople. He then remarked, continue Nicolay and Hay, tha^his army was in a starving condition, and asked Grant toprovide them with subsistence and forage, to which he atonce assented, and asked for how many men the rationswould be wanted. Lee answered, about twenty-five thou-sand, and orders were at once given to issue them. Thenumber surrendered turned out to be even larger than paroles signed amounted to 28,231. If we add to thisthe captures at Five Forks, Petersburg,
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