- Robert Lee letter to Ulysses Grant.
unknown - 7 April 1865
I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood
- Ulysses Grant letter to Robert Lee.
Headquarters Armies Of The United States - 7 April 1865
The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle.
- James Longstreet letter to Robert Lee.
unknown - 14 February 1865
The only thing that will insure our rations and national existence is gold. Send out the gold through Virginia and North Carolina and pay liberal prices, and my conviction is that we shall have no more distress for want of food.
- George Pickett letter to Salle Corbell Pickett.
Appomattox, VA - 0 April 1865
TO-MORROW, my darling, may see our flag furled forever.
- Jefferson Davis letter to Varina Davis.
Danville, VA - 5 April 1865
On last Sunday I was called out of church to receive a telegram announcing that General Lee could not hold his position longer than till night, and warning me that we must leave Richmond
- Ulysses Grant letter to Robert Lee.
Headquarters Armies Of The United States - 8 April 1865
Your note of last evening in reply to mine of the same date, asking the conditions on which I will accept surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, is just received.
- Robert Lee letter to Ulysses Grant.
unknown - 8 April 1865
I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition.
- Theodore Lyman letter to Elizabeth Russell.
Headquarters Army Of Potomac, VA - 9 April 1865
It was a strange spectacle, to see the officers laughing and giving each other $500 notes of a government that has been considered as firmly established by our English friends!
- Robert Lee letter to unknown.
Richmond, VA - 10 April 1865
Robert E. Lee letter to confederate soldiers ...the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources
- Jefferson Davis letter to Varina Howell.
Charlotte, NC - 23 April 1865
The dispersion of Lee's army and the surrender of the remnant which remained with him destroyed the hopes I entertained when we parted.
- Theodore Lyman letter to Elizabeth Russell.
Headquarters Army Of Potomac, VA - 23 April 1865
Monday April 10 is a day worthy of description, because I saw the remains of our great opponent, the Army of Northern Virginia.
- Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter to unknown.
Greensboro, NC - 27 April 1865
Events having brought to an end the struggle for the independence of our country, in which we have been engaged together, now for four years
- Dolly Sumner Lunt Journal Entry.
Burge Plantation, GA - 29 April 1865
General Lee has surrendered to the victorious Grant. Well, if it will only hasten the conclusion of this war, I am satisfied.
- Varina Davis letter to John Craven.
Mill View, GA - 10 October 1865
When he was taken from me on the ship, the provost-guard and some women detectives came on board, and after the women searched our persons, the men searched our baggage.
