AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE
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Question
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Southern (Confederate) soldiers were allowed to go home.
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Southern (Confederate) soldiers became prisoners of the North (Union) army.
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General Lee signed the surrender in the McLean House.
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General Grant wrote out the surrender for General Lee to sign.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Appomattox County, VA | Apr 9, 1865. Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces and leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Detailed explanation-3: -Confederate soldiers would be immediately paroled and allowed to return home. They would be given rations and in some cases transportation. They would not go to prison and would not be prosecuted for treason. Surrender would be the way to end the war quickly and with the least amount of bloodshed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aside from Grant and Lee, only Lt. Colonel Marshall and perhaps a half dozen of Grant’s staff officers were present for most of the meeting. Approximately a dozen other Union officers entered the room briefly, including Captain Robert Todd Lincoln.