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Amelia Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Lee's report of the surrender at Appomattox.
On the 12th of April, 1865, from Near Appomattox Court House, General R. E. Lee made the following report to Mr. Davis:
Mr. President: It is with pain that I announce to Your Excellency the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The operations which preceded this result will be reported in full.
I will therefore only now state that upon arriving at Amelia Court House on the morning of the 4th with the advance of the army, on the retreat from the lines in front of Richmond and Petersburg, and not finding the supplies ordered to be placed there, nearly twenty-four hours were lost in endeavoring to collect in the country subsistence for men and horses.
This delay was fatal, and could not be retrieved.
The troops, wearied by continual fighting and marching for several days and nights, obtained neither rest nor refreshment, and on moving on the 5th, on the Richmond and Danville railroad, I found at Jetersville the enemy's cavalr
Burkeville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Danville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Lee's report of the surrender at Appomattox.
On the 12th of April, 1865, from Near Appomattox Court House, General R. E. Lee made the following report to Mr. Davis:
Mr. President: It is with pain that I announce to Your Excellency the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The operations which preceded this result will be reported in full.
I will therefore only now state that upon arriving at Amelia Court House on the morning of the 4th with the advance of the army, on the retrea t, which, moving in the direction of Appomattox Court House, drove back the left of the cavalry and threatened to cut off Gordon from Longstreet, his cavalry at the same time threatening to envelop his left flank.
Gordon withdrew across the Appomattox River, and the cavalry advanced on the Lynchburg road and became separated from the army.
Learning the condition of affairs on the lines, where I had gone under the expectation of meeting General Grant to learn definitely the terms he proposed in
Farmville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Pittsylvania (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Amelia Springs (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Jetersville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16.109