(A) 100
(B) ** 28, 000
(C) 40, 000
(D) 2, 000
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -On this day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the Civil War on April 9, 1865.
Concept note-2: -In Appomattox, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28, 000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Concept note-3: -The Union general granted Lee favorable terms of surrender: allowing the men to return to their homes and letting the officers, cavalrymen, and artillerymen keep their swords and horses if the men agreed to lay down their arms and abide by federal law.
Concept note-4: -While it was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy’s most respected commander, surrendered only his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Concept note-5: -I determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen… I bid you an affectionate farewell.”