Robert e lee and ulysses s grant
Entering the house, Grant greeted Lee in the center of the room. A half hour later, the sound of horses on the stage road signalled the approach of General Grant. Lee arrived at the McLean house about one o'clock and took a seat in the parlor. After seeing the comfortable country abode, Marshall readily accepted and sent Private Johns back to inform General Lee that a meeting site had been found. Marshall immediately rejected this offer. He asked McLean if he knew of a suitable location, and McLean took him to an empty structure that was without furniture. As Marshall passed through the village he saw Wilmer McLean in the vicinity of the courthouse. Marshall and Johns rode ahead of Lee in order to find a place for the generals to confer. Johns rode toward Appomattox Court House accompanied by Federal Officers Lt. Colonel Charles Marshall, and Private Joshua O. After reading Grant's letter, Lee, his Aide-de-Camp Lt. Babcock found Lee resting under an apple tree near the Appomattox River. The location of the meeting was left to Lee's discretion. He stopped to prepare his reply to Lee, writing that he would push to the front to meet him. Grant, who had been suffering from a severe headache, later remembered that upon reading Lee's letter the pain in his head had disappeared. Lee had sent a letter to Grant requesting a meeting to discuss his army's surrender and this letter overtook Grant and his party just before noon about four miles west of Walker's Church (present-day Hixburg). Grant was riding toward Appomattox Court House where Union Cavalry, followed by infantry from the V, XXIV, and XXV Corps had blocked the Confederate path. Lee realized that the retreat of his beleaguered army had finally been halted, U. On the morning of April 9, while General Robert E. See "The Surrender" painting by Keith Rocco