Lot 472
Military printing of the nine letters between generals Lee and Grant. Printed Document representing the "correspondence which took place between Generals GRANT and LEE previous to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia…published for the information of the people in the vicinity of the lines," Headquarters Middle Military Division, Winchester, 3 pages, 10 x 8 in., April 11, 1865. The printing includes a series of nine letters between the two opposing generals from April 7 through April 9, 1865, culminating with the capitulation of General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. The communications, although brief, are highly important and discuss the various arrangements and agreements settled upon by the two generals, with U. S. Grant proposing the terms of surrender and Lee's acceptance of them. Grant states that the officers of the Confederate Army are "to give their individual paroles not to take arms against the Gov't of the United States until properly exchanged, and each Company or Regimental Commander sign a like parole for the men of their comman--the arms, artillery and public property to be packed and stacked and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage…" Fine condition.
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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