English: Gen. Lee surrenders
Identifier: ridpathshistoryo07ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Jones Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ve the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to-wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate; one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such other officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles notto take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly e.\changed, and each company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property, to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man wil. be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they ob-serve their paroles and the laws in force where they reside. U. S. Gn\NT. Lieutenant General. 1C2 VNIVEHtSAL HJSTOM Y.—TRE MODERN WORLD.
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THE UNITED STATES.—THE CIVIL WAR. 163 To this memorandum Genera) Lee responded as follows: Headquarters Army op Northern \ Virginia, April 9, 1865. / General,—I received your letter of this date, obtaining the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those ex-pres.seil in your letter of the Sth instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into^ffgct_ R. E. Lee, General. With the downfall of Lees army, the collapse of the Confederacy was complete. The destruction of the military power meant the destruction of everything upon which the South had depended. In the narrative of Siiermaus march northward from Savannah to Raleigh, we have already recounted the end of that great campaign. The surrender of Johnston followed on the 26th of April, and on the same terms which had been conceded seventeen days previously by Grant to Lee at Appomattox. In the overthrow of their
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