Transcript The Surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox

By: Ricky Cooks, Khabril Kirkendall,
Iiyonna Walker, and Alan Missildine
• Date: April 9, 1865
• Summary: After the Union “cut the Confederacy in half,”
General Robert E. Lee decided that there was no reason in
fighting, without losing. He, along with Lt. Col. Marshall,
travelled to Appomattox Court House in West Virginia to
surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union. After
about an hour and a half after the start of the meeting, Lee and
Grant shook hands, basically ending the war, and Lee left.
About one month later, the last commander surrendered and
the Civil War ended.
• Effect: Ended the Civil War, led to the freeing of slaves, and
preserved the United States.
• Confederacy Participants- General Robert E. Lee
- Lt. Col. Charles Marshall
• Union Participants- Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- Lt. Col. Ely Parker
- Lt. Col. Orville E. Babcock
- Maj. Gen. Edward O. C. Ord
- Lt. Col. Horace Porter
- Capt. Robert T. Lincoln
- Lt. Col. Theodore S. Bowers
- Maj. Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan
- Brig. Gen. John Rawlins
- Brig. Gen. Rufus Ingalls
- Lt. Col. Adam Badeau
- Brig. Gen. George H. Sharpe
- Brig. Gen. Michael Morgan
- Brig. Gen. Seth Williams
Interesting Fact:
After the war, there was talk
of putting Lee on trial for
treason. Grant wrote, “I will
resign the command of the
army rather than execute any
order to arrest Lee.” That
settled the matter, and Lee
was never tried
 Lee and Grant 