Surrender at Appomattox: First-hand Accounts of Robert E. Lee's Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

On the 12th of April, 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia marched to the field in front of Appomattox Court-House, stacked their arms, folded their colors, and walked empty handed to find their distant, blighted homes.

These are detailed and moving first-hand accounts from seven historically prominent witnesses to Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Nothern Virginia at Appomattox.