A history of the United States for schools . Copyright, 1887. by The Century Co. VILLAGE OF APPOMATTOX COURT tion with Johnston. This scheme was frustrated bySheridan in the battle of Five Forks, April i, whichturned Lees right flank and threatened his rear. Nextmorning, the Confederates were obliged to abandonPetersburg. Their government fled from Rich-mond, and Lee, driven westward, was headedoff at Appomattox Court House, where, on the9th of April, he surrendered to Grant the remnant Lees sur-render atAppomat-tox. 1 From a war-time photograph reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the

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A history of the United States for schools . Copyright, 1887. by The Century Co. VILLAGE OF APPOMATTOX COURT tion with Johnston. This scheme was frustrated bySheridan in the battle of Five Forks, April i, whichturned Lees right flank and threatened his rear. Nextmorning, the Confederates were obliged to abandonPetersburg. Their government fled from Rich-mond, and Lee, driven westward, was headedoff at Appomattox Court House, where, on the9th of April, he surrendered to Grant the remnant Lees sur-render atAppomat-tox. 1 From a war-time photograph reproduced in Battles and Leaders of theCivil War. The house on the right, with the veranda, is Mr. McLeanshouse, in which the articles of capitulation were agreed upon and signed. 428 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XV, of his army, only 26,000 men. A fortnight later,Johnston surrendered his army to Sherman. On theloth of May, Jefferson Davis was captured near Irwins-ville, in Georgia, and was sent as a prisoner to FortressMonroe,^ The public rejoicings at the end of the war were KALEVIM

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