Show Y Yn Yv v n TOLD FOLD OF LEES LEE'S SURRENDER Characteristic Story of Confederate Soldier of Scenes In Army on Historical Day The following story of how a member member mem memo ber of a North Carolina regiment of cavalry felt at Lees Lee's surrender was told to me some time ago I will try and place it before my readers In as net nei r the Iho narrators narrator's own words as I 1 Ican can writes G. G B. B Sutherland in an exchange He says After I 1 had enlisted enlisted en listed In the army tho the first battle we had almost scared me mo to death but hut I gradually took courage and soon was doing some of my best shooting We Wo r ri t. t i i 11 na G GI L I 11 tau 1 r r r 9 I G 7 V 1 II J n r f fl l. l I tf I 11 lid 1 lidI Ul i 1 I Thought I Had Been Shot 1 were In a skirt of woods and we would He lie flat fiat on our backs and load i our guns then rise up fire and anel drop on our backs again It was not long before my comrade next me was lying dead shot through the head I be became became came more alarmed than I had previously been and stretched myself flat fla flaton flaton on the ground and was trying to my head under the sod sad when a shell she cut some bark off orr a tree near me and anc it flew fiew and struck me on the back an anI and andI I 1 gave an awful groan thinking m my time had come for I 1 thought I 1 had hat been shot in the shoulder but greatly greatly relieved was I 1 when I discovered I Iwas Iwas was not hurt hurL I passed through th the latter part of the war without bein being hurt badly and I never was scared scarce any more as badly as I was at the first firs battle I engaged in Thus the war passed with much suffering from myself and comrades until the ninth day of April 1865 when we were engaged in battle a at Appomattox We saw the flag o of truce and heard the tire command t to cease firing then we awaited wit with bated breath for long hours All a at once we caught sight of a man ridin riding along the line white flag In hand am and the cry was echoed Lee has surrendered surrendered dered The shout was taken up an and passed along the lines Lee has sur surrendered surrendered surrendered rendered Lee e has bas surrendered Never before was seen such a waving of hats such shouting and hallooing as was seen upon the field of at Lees Lee's surrender on that historical dayI dayI dayI day I dont don't know how my comrades felt but as for myself I felt as if I 1 had nothing to live for if Lee sur sur- rendered 1 4 was not sorry that the war was at a close but I was thinkIng thinking thinking think think- ing of Grant the man who had us in his power and I 1 felt sure we would all be lodged in prison for the rest of our lives You can imagine my feelings of horror at the thought of at being shut up In a dreary prison for life But we were ordered to stack arms and march to the courthouse and there when the treaty of at peace was signed that noble man General Grant gave gaye each of us a pass told us to take our horses and go home to our out families I felt then ihen as I 1 do now that hat there never was a more kind and generou generous man ever lived than General Grant We took our passes passes and reached reache home without much difficulty subsist subsistIng subsisting subsisting Ing sometimes on corn parched that we dug from out the frozen ground where our horses had been fed On our way home we came to an old aId mill mW where a small boy was grinding hi his last bushel of corn for his old parents parents par par- but we e took h half lf of it in spite athis of at his supplications to the contrary ground It into hominy and poured Water water wa Wa- ter tel In It and nd baked it on a flat Oat rock but I thought I 1 never before or since tasted anything so delicious If I live to be as old as Methuselah I will never forget the day and anti how I felt at Lees Lee's surrender and I also can never lever forget the kindness and generosity generosity gener gener- y of General Grant to the poor soldiers who had caused him so much trouble I |