Show m = j4iES SU1tRENI irccollcctioiiB of the 101 i Scene ut Jllol1laUox filial ients of the surrender of Gen The incidents to General Grant at Ape Ap-e roll JceS Court rIlly House have attracted ad l1oim1ilttoc h recently and several pou rest hiOn1l interest 1ished Ex millions I have been published ttc me nts lIof1man wrItes as follows 10hn T The herald tl0V vii York JTtrald < tthe NeW quote what others say Iud other ptplrs Grant refusing to receive bolt lGSo Gen Lee at the slrrender Ille sword doubt of he did and think but Ih1Ve no lie told me so I recollect am 1101 sine in iving me a detailed lie < lid onee that eventful day tell 1 of 51110i1gother t thinggj that in I 1I1e nnong when he l received Lees thC TSkSig meeting he was suffer a Jnisiek S kiug headache vhich almost ing from a the headache left him f himthat d n iutl his horse that when he 15 he Il1ol1nted of meeting he found he reached the place sword I behind while Lee wo hal left hi in full uniform Wen vore his S was he smiled and 1 have al said this without his he IWtod he went was SUSlCCICI could have a good and < ii it he TSrSonfor not accepting that of dclic1te ci on 1ift like hUll I think f It W5 1t lienIee surrender was one of at die his londurt acts m lomlechon with the 110hllst of 1m the war 3fan5laU of the Balti Cll1des 01 J ami who > as Gen Lees chief UlOn t1fl bar mlS 01IC of the chief actors in d emorable events at Appomattox > P IJVWV JL rby I related the incidents in a gen nVersalion with a reporter of the l fp r j g Ilw oilier on St Paul street N tfederate forces were intrench it an attuk In a message sent 1 by tli JXHon Aprils in reply to the his r 7 J 1 demand of Gen Grant for the sir IrW Gen Lw had designated a loc 13 J where he would be prepared to re uu the answer On the morning of Apnl t Gen Lee accompanied by Cot Msreliall 1 and with one orderly ode from the front of the Confederate lines lek l to where Gen Grants communicj tin was expected There they met a olonel of Gen Humphreys division who lirouiht Gen Grants answer Gen Lee lad asked for a conference at wInch the general terms for a peace would be u = ctiss3d This General Grant declined on the ground that he had no power The Federal colonel and Colonel Marshall Mar-shall both dismounted carried on this internet Gen Lee having halted a few ranis away Col Marshall was told that the Federal forces were preparing for an immediate attack and their moving troops were plainly in sight Gen Grant ILl was told had gone around to his front 2nd was at that moment about four miles distant Col Marshall expressed his regret re-gret that there was to be a further effu son of blood and at the dictation of ben Lee he wrote the message to Gen Grant asking for a conference to dis tU5S the terms of surrender This was earned to Gen Humphries who immediately im-mediately sent it to Gen Grant by the shortest route Gen Lee and Col Marshall then rode to the Confederate front where firing was going on The finng ceased before they reached there i It was a cavalry skirmish and General I htz Lee was coining in with a couple of pin and several hundred prisoners that I Lid been captured This was the last anrnish Shortly after a flag of truce I approached from the Federal lines and fond 0 E Babcock of General Grants I off accompanied by an orderly rode ny He brought a message from General Viranl asking General Lee to designate me place of conference either in the Con Awrafe or Federal lines General Lee immediately mounted his horse and rill Colonel Marshall Colonel Babcock lId several orderlies rode into the Pedal Ped-al lines Colonel Marshall rode in ad mce to select a place for the meeting He met Mr McLean a citizen on the road who had his home on the first Manassas battle field and loved to Appomattox Court House toet away from the armies as he hoped lr McLean took Colonel Marshall to an unoccupied house which was rejected because it was without furniture He ton offered his own residence on the u3kirt of the little village This was ppted and General Lee and Colonel t utkotk soon arrived and with Colonel Wiall they went into a room and I ITlltd the arrival of General Grant U t General when he sent Colonel 1k to General Lee started forward I lt elf with a numerous retinue of his 15ers When Gen Grant reached Leans house he and his officer iiilitd When shown into the room head he-ad lllce and shook hands with Gen we The Federal commander was in undress uniform and without sidearms while Gen Lee was in full uniform He l ore a handsome sword with gold hilt which was a gift of English friends He also wore a sash which was sever seen except at especial reviews or on dress occasions General want by way of apology to General Lee for coming without his sidearms said that Ins sword was with his baggae and because of his desire to reach the place for the conference he had hastened on in undress uniform This was the only in 5 ° to a sword that was made at the SPn7 Tlc other Federal officers S illtroJured to General Lee and the conversation for a short time was general Gmural Lee requested General Grant to put Into ltms the telms upon which he asked time surrender of the Confederate frees Colonel Parker of General Grant s Rtaff moved over to his chief a lI1al tae that was in the room and Ilpon ttl thin Genlral Grant wrote in pencil terms of Hffrcn ler This was sub ktteml 1 to General Lee wlm objecte il fo jiU UUC > Who OiJUWU the i emancl for the surrender of t t the i hat horses oi his men lIe saitl W most of the men owned their whith would be useful to them for otkat at ti their aWtaJr homeR to which they were aLjit0 1 to umieit 1 l return He asked that horse du ful hed Were i I nyatc property and not benll IJythe i kfctajtof Z Confederate government ll Pte Gen Grant agreed to this Witii I ill i t1e his pencil interlined the words ull Ie MUen used forSS terms Field paper was C0p118 docu ent which made two atonn 1Ilei in one writing Cot Parker was ivitit lIstructed to make an inkropy of aMalhr Qi Grant had written and Col all ce oe la11 the Wrote for Gen Lee the accept tie of nnkn terms of surrender A bot Is that Vas too thick for but n ° wlii rS use r shall highly > n zed was Produced Col > all jWiJSf 1 wIth him a bottle of ink Time tv0 uscd for writing when in the field thiC o documents t1is sink Plenls were written with its 1 Col Marshall wrote with lot certin pen and lie is Use he CCij5j11 that CoL Parker did not Ms sa1l1e pen Gen Graut affixed CQISl larker nature to the document written by Iiared and Gen Lee signed the one lordimig rc by Co Marshall about the i Hieof of yhieh Jie was consulted at the ilafllCd nTrGen Grants PaPer was to 0 CoI ias given Marshall and Gen Lees mfor 1 1CV Parker who retained lira Iuch chiefs These are the pa tistoty of arc familiar to readers of the tera 11Cre that era While the staff offi Grant aild preparing these papers Gons and tlan Lee engaged in conversarion in time other Federal officers were also room Made Gen Lee and Col were the only Confeder t ales present Gen Grant called across the room to Gen Sheridan to inquire how many rations he could furnish Gen Grant explained that he was advised that Gen Lees forces had a number of Federal Fed-eral prisoners who like their captors were out of rations Gen of Sheridan replied re-plied that he could supply 25000 rations General Grant then instructed him to send 25000 rations to General Lees commissary commis-sary After the interview General Lee asked for General Williams and thanked that officer for kindness shown to his son General Curtis Lee who had been cap tured several days before When General Lee and Colonel Marshall rode off the Federal oincers filled the front porch Colonel Marshall is not sure that General Grant was among them for his thoughts were busy with other matters at tile time It was known in the Confederate lines that Gen Lee had gone to meet General Grant and the soldIers crovded around to learn the result when he returned I General Lee addressed his men on that occasion He then retired to his tent and selected the commissioners who with a similar commission named by General Grant were to carry out the details of he surrender The next day when the paroling of the men was going on Gen Lee had another interview with General Grant at the request of the latter Gen Grant was anxious to have a meeting between President Lincoln and Gen Lee > nothing came of it Col Babcock who was drowned in Florida last summer had a conversation with dol Marshall before he lost his life He said he had prepared a statement of the incidents as IK them and hoped that Col Marshall Mar-shall would do the same Col Babcock remarked It is tim the stories of the Appomattox apple tree and Gen Lees sword were exploded Col Marshall l in closing the conversation conver-sation ayaiuded to the statements about what Gen Lee would have done if Gen Grant had demanded his sword and the sidearms of his officers Col Marshall Mar-shall said that questiondid not come up at all in connection with the surrender The only allusion to a sword was when Gen Grant excused himself to Gen Lee for coming to see him without wearing one Col Marshall thought that if books were written to tell the things that men might have done if something else had occurred except what really happened there would not be enough libraries to hold them |