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, served to prove to General Grant the fact which General Phil Sheridan had advanced that the cutting of railroad lines between Petersburgnt combat. The Fifth Army Corps had been detailed to work with Sheridan's cavalry division. The subsequent relief of General Warren is a n any that had gone before. As we were hurrying on in response to Sheridan's hastily scribbled note for aid, an orderly with still another co as we were passing a road leading into the woods. In the name of Sheridan I was ordered to turn aside from the column of march, without waitreatest excitement that the Confederate infantry was pressing upon Sheridan with a weight so terrible that his cavalry alone could not long opd the Confederate forces on the hill, my brigade was left alone by Sheridan's cavalry, which had gone to the right to take the enemy in the flgallant in the extreme may be judged when it is told that both General Sheridan and General Grant commended him personally. This the General
James H. Gibbon (search for this): chapter 1.52
th another abjectedly stiff salute the officer with his milk-white banner galloped away down our line. It was subsequently learned that General Ord was situated some distance away at my left with his troops of the Army of the James, comprising Gibbon's Second Army Corps and a division of the Twenty-fifth Army Corps. His line quite stretched across the Lynchburg road, or pike, as we called it then. Well, as I have said, the flag of truce was sent to Ord, and not long afterward came the come three senior officers whom General Grant had selected to superintend the paroles and to look after the transfer of property and to attend to the final details of General Lee's surrender. These were General Griffin of the 5th Army Corps and General Gibbon of the 24th. The other commissioner, General Merritt of the cavalry, was not there. The articles of capitulation had been signed previously and it had come to the mere matter of formally settling the details of the surrender. The two offic
April 9th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.52
he last salute of the Army of Northern Virginia. [from the Boston Journal, May, 1901.j Details of the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9th, 1865. Lenient terms of General Grant. By General J. L. Chamberlain. It is an astounding fact that among the thousands of official documents bearing upon the al Lee's army of all Confederate property in their possession at Appomattox Courthouse thirty-six years ago. When General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9th, 1865, the war was virtually over, but of the details of the surrender, the pathetic sadness on the one side, the jubilant satisfaction on the other, and, more partd men. No officer surrendered his side arms or horse, if private property, only Confederate property being required, according to the terms of surrender, dated April 9, 1865, and stating that all arms, artillery, and public property were to be packed and stacked and turned over to the officer duly appointed to receive them. And
f facts, ill-timed, task of setting down in complete detail that story which long ago should have had a full official telling. In that great national tragedy of the Civil war there has been for years much effort, always in a more or less unostentatious and secretive way, to eliminate the merit which was due to prominent actors. It has been said recurrently that officers other than the actual one who commanded on the impressive occasion, and, to cite one case, a general officer, who, from 1863, was never connected with the Army of the Potomac, was frequently banqueted and toasted as the soldier who received the surrender of General Robert E. Lee. This was, to be sure, an unfair acceptance, but it was accepted in silence, and even at later times assented to in subsequent remarks. But, be it said, such pretense of merit deserves and surely ought to receive the censure of every loyal comrade. The man who did command the Union soldiery that stood immovable for hours near Appomatto
o, knives and souvenirs. In the last days of fighting, which ended in Lee's surrender, General Chamberlain was wounded twice. That his service was gallant in the extreme may be judged when it is told that both General Sheridan and General Grant commended him personally. This the General cared to dwell on but little. But when it came to describing the final scenes of the war, the gray-haired army leader grew ardent with enthusiasm for his subject: On that night, the 10th of April, in 1865, I was commanding the 5th Army Corps, he said. It was just about midnight when a message came to me to report to headquarters. I went thither directly and found assembled in the tent two of the three senior officers whom General Grant had selected to superintend the paroles and to look after the transfer of property and to attend to the final details of General Lee's surrender. These were General Griffin of the 5th Army Corps and General Gibbon of the 24th. The other commissioner, G
May, 1901 AD (search for this): chapter 1.52
The last salute of the Army of Northern Virginia. [from the Boston Journal, May, 1901.j Details of the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9th, 1865. Lenient terms of General Grant. By General J. L. Chamberlain. It is an astounding fact that among the thousands of official documents bearing upon the Civil war in the National Archives at Washington there is absolutely nothing dealing with one of the most dramatic features of the great four years internal struggle-the actual ceremonies attendant upon the formal surrender by General Lee's army of all Confederate property in their possession at Appomattox Courthouse thirty-six years ago. When General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9th, 1865, the war was virtually over, but of the details of the surrender, the pathetic sadness on the one side, the jubilant satisfaction on the other, and, more particularly of the precise arrangements, the mode of procedure and the Northern army officer whose d
pipes, tobacco, knives and souvenirs. In the last days of fighting, which ended in Lee's surrender, General Chamberlain was wounded twice. That his service was gallant in the extreme may be judged when it is told that both General Sheridan and General Grant commended him personally. This the General cared to dwell on but little. But when it came to describing the final scenes of the war, the gray-haired army leader grew ardent with enthusiasm for his subject: On that night, the 10th of April, in 1865, I was commanding the 5th Army Corps, he said. It was just about midnight when a message came to me to report to headquarters. I went thither directly and found assembled in the tent two of the three senior officers whom General Grant had selected to superintend the paroles and to look after the transfer of property and to attend to the final details of General Lee's surrender. These were General Griffin of the 5th Army Corps and General Gibbon of the 24th. The other c
aid, no Confederate officer was required or even asked to surrender his side arms if they were his personal property. As a matter of fact, General Lee never gave up his sword, although, if I am not mistaken, there was some conference between General Grant and some of the members of his staff upon that very subject just before the final surrender. I was not present at that conference, however, and only know of it by hearsay. But, as I was saying, every token of armed hostility having been laid aside, and the men having given their words of honor that they would never serve again against the flag, they were free to go whither they would and as best they could. In the meantime our army had been supplying them with rations. On the next morning, however, the morning of the 13th, we could see the men, singly or in squads, making their way slowly into the distance, in whichever direction was nearest home, and by nightfall we were left there at Appomattox Courthouse lonesome and alone.
April 1st, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.52
al part of the educational history of his beloved Pine Tree State, which he has represented as Governor as one of the legislators, as President of Bowdoin College, and particularly as a soldier, his long and eventful life has come to be well known to the people of the entire country—his life excepting that part he played in the last act of the war. This is somewhat in detail the entire story as summarized by General Chamberlain: The Battle of Five Forks, which occurred on the 1st of April, 1865, served to prove to General Grant the fact which General Phil Sheridan had advanced that the cutting of railroad lines between Petersburg and the South had made exceedingly difficult, if not practically impossible, the provisioning of the Confederate army, and that the departure of that command and its march toward Lynchburg might soon be expected. The victory of Fire Forks was so complete in every way as to wholly paralyze General Lee's plan for further delay, and it is not too
battle-bronzed cheeks were not altogether dry. Our men felt the import of the occasion, and realized fully how they would have been affected if defeat and surrender had been their lot after such a fearful struggle. Nearly an entire day was necessary for that vast parade to pass. About 27,000 Reference may be made as to this statement to Paroles of the Army of Northern Virginia Vol. XV, So. Hist. So. Papers, p. XXVII communication of General Lee to Prest. Davis: On the morning of the 9th, according to the reports of the ordnance officers, there were 7,892 organized Infantry with arms.—Ed. stands of arms were laid down, with something like a hundred battleflags; cartridges were destroyed, and the arms loaded on cars and sent off to Wilmington. Every token of armed hostility was laid aside by the defeated men. No officer surrendered his side arms or horse, if private property, only Confederate property being required, according to the terms of surrender, dated April 9, 1865,
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