Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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de aware. Lee mounted hishorse. GeneralLongstreet, he said,I leave you in charge;I am going to hold aconference with Gen-eral Grant. He thenrode off. On his wayhe received Grantsletter, before quoted.He replied immedi-ately : April 9,1865.General: I receivedyour note of this morning,on the picket-line.whitherI had come to meet you,and ascertain definitelywhat terms were embrac-ed in your proposition ofyesterday, with referenceto the surrender of thisarmy. I now ask an in-terview, in accordancewith the offer containedin your letter of yesterdayfor that purpose. R. E.LEE, General. Lieut.-General U. S. Grant. To this Grant re-plied as follows: April 9th, 1865. General : Your noteof this date is but thismoment (i 1.50 A. M.) re-ceived. In consequenceof my having passed fromtheRichmondand Lynch-burg road to the FarmvilleJ and Lynchburg road,I amat this writing about fourmiles west of WaltersChurch, and will ^.ash forward to the front for thepurpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this
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7^4 THE CIVIL WAR. road, where you wish the interview to take place,will meet n->e. U. S. GRANT, Jeutenant-General. General R. E. Lee. The scene and the main features of theinterview have been preserved for i; ; by aneye-witness. It took place at the house ofMr. Wiimer McLean—a square brick build-ing surrounded with roses, violets and daffo-dils. Grant—with his slouched hat, darkblue frock-coat unbuttoned and covered withmud, gray pantaloons tucked in his soiledboote, and a dark waistcoat, and with nothingto indicate his rank, except the double rowof brass buttons and the three silver stars—walked up to the house, accompanied byOrd, Sheridan and their respective staffs.Lee had already arrived; and his bloodediron-gray horse, in charge of an orderly, wasnibbling at the grass. Grant and two aidsentered the house; the others who accom-panied him, sat down on the porch. Leewas standing beside a table, wearing a brightbluish-gray uniform, a military hat, with agold cord, buckskin

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