The Surrender of General Robert E. Lee at

Appomattox Court House

By: Ricky Cooks, Khabril Kirkendall, Iiyonna Walker, and Alan Missildine

• Date: April 9, 1865

• Summary: After the Union “cut the Confederacy in half,” General Robert E. Lee decided that there was no reason in fighting, without losing. He, along with Lt. Col. Marshall, travelled to Appomattox Court House in West Virginia to surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union. After about an hour and a half after the start of the meeting, Lee and Grant shook hands, basically ending the war, and Lee left. About one month later, the last commander surrendered and the Civil War ended.

• Effect: Ended the Civil War, led to the freeing of slaves, and preserved the United States.

• Confederacy Participants- - General Robert E. Lee

- Lt. Col. Charles Marshall

• Union Participants- - Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

- Lt. Col. Ely Parker - Lt. Col. Orville E. Babcock - Maj. Gen. Edward O. C. Ord - Lt. Col. Horace Porter - Capt. Robert T. Lincoln

- Lt. Col. Theodore S. Bowers - Maj. Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan - Brig. Gen. John Rawlins - Brig. Gen. Rufus Ingalls - Lt. Col. Adam Badeau - Brig. Gen. George H. Sharpe - Brig. Gen. Michael Morgan - Brig. Gen. Seth Williams

Interesting Fact: After the war, there was talk

of putting Lee on trial for treason. Grant wrote, “I will resign the command of the

army rather than execute any order to arrest Lee.” That settled the matter, and Lee

was never tried

Lee and Grant