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Residence of Lieut. Gen. Grant

R. Newell, Philadelphia. Handwritten identification on verso: "Residence of Lieut. Gen. Grant As it appeared April 15th - 1865" Building in the city decorated with patriotic bunting.

GLC05137.161

High Bridge Crossing Appomattox, near Farmville, Va.

[Title continued] "on south side railroad, Va." Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan. From Gardner's "Phot. Sketchbook of the Civil War," plate "No. 98" with text accompanying panel.

GLC05111.01.0268

Federal soldiers posed in front of the Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Soldiers posed in front of, and on the steps and porch of the Appomattox. Notes the stacked arms in the foreground. Wilmer McLean and children appear in the center of the photograph. Graphite inscription on verso: "Appomattox Court House."...

GLC05111.01.0278

Rail lines at Appomattox Station, Va. [April 1865]

From Gardner's "Photo. Sketchbook of the Civil War," with accompanying panel of text describing the events of 1865 leading up to Appomattox and Lee's surrender. Two men pose on the train tracks and a third sits on a pari of train wheels. The men are...

GLC05111.01.0279

McLean family posed on front porch at Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Graphite inscription on verso: "McLean's House where Grant & Lee signed the capitulation. Wants 20." Posed on the porch is Mr. McLean, Mrs. McLean, along with one another woman, and a small boy and girl. Written at the Appomattox Court House
See...

GLC05111.01.0280

High bridge over Appomattox River, [near Farmville, Va.]. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. Longview looking down the tracks of the South Side Railroad crossing over the Appomattox. A man sits on the guard rail on the left hand side of the image. A smaller bridge can be seen on lower ground in the right...

GLC05111.01.0393

McLean House and family posed on front porch at Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Three women, two men, and little girl sit on the steps of the McLean house. Half of a seventh person is visible. Inscription on verso: "The McLean House." Photo is attached to board which has an illustration on verso of dogs and cats drinking from...

GLC05111.01.0532

McLean House and family posed on front porch at Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Three women and two men stand on the porch of the McLean house. Inscription on verso: "McLeans House Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "42(451)."
See GLC 5111.01.0280, .0532.

GLC05111.01.0732

Seventeen soldiers in front of Appomattox Courthouse.

Inscription on verso: "Appomattox Courthouse, Va. where Lee surrendered." Numeric Notation on verso: "44(856)." The men stand behind their stacked arms. Two tents are on the left side of the image.

GLC05111.01.0733

Waterfall on Appomattox River with factory in background.

Inscription on verso: "Waterfall on Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "21(799)."

GLC05111.01.0734

Waterfall on Appomattox River with man seated in foreground and buildings in background.

Inscription on verso: "Waterfall on Appomattox." Numeric Notation: "144."

GLC05111.01.0735

Waterfall on Appomattox River with ruins and structures in foreground and background.

Inscription on verso: "Waterfall on Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "26."

GLC05111.01.0736

Northern View of Waterfall on Appomattox River with tree and several men in foreground, buildings in distance.

Inscription on verso: "View of Falls-North side Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "24."

GLC05111.01.0737

Ruins of railroad bridge and mill on the Appomattox River, Petersburg [VA], with man standing on river bank.

Inscription on verso: "Ruined Mills & RR Bridge across Appomattox." Note: Steam engine that was torched while upon the bridge [at center], now resting on its side on the far bank. Numeric notation on verso: "20."

GLC05111.01.0791

Appomattox Court House

This picture shows Union soldiers grouped before the Appomattox Court House after Lee's surrender to Grant. Inscriptions on verso: "Appomattox Courthouse" "Gardner" "Fr. guide only" and "in Ohio photo." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-IV" and "1164...

GLC05111.01.0989

Bombed building on the Appomattox River.

The image shows a bombed building on the far bank of the river with a man standing amidst the rubble on the near bank, a fence leading into the water on the far right, and more buildings in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Appomattox River above...

GLC05111.01.1066

As major general, standing full length portrait, leaning on table

Graphite inscription on verso "**Book" "Maj Gen Ord. Table on which the Surrender was signed." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0625

Union Sentinel - Extra

Announces the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox and publishes the correspondence between General Ulysses S. Grant and Lee leading up to the surrender, including the terms and Lee's acceptance.

GLC04407

to Ulysses S. Grant & E.M. Stanton

Writes to General Grant and Secretary of War Stanton to report on his correspondence with General Johnston to arrange terms of surrender at Durham Station, North Carolina. He writes that he will accept the same terms that Grant gave Lee at Appomattox...

GLC04545.01

Battles and battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N. Y. S. Vols.

One undated albumen print entitled, "Battles and Battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N.Y.S. Vols." Image is a collage composed of two separate images of printed lists of Civil War battles where the New York's 89th Regiment was present, the United...

GLC04558.208

Diary of Milton Whipple

Early entries are brief and mostly record staff changes, troop movements, drills, and the weather but the entries lengthen as Whipple details the Appomattox campaign and the last few weeks leading up to General Robert E. Lee's surrender. On 24...

GLC04561

to William Lewis Maury

Murdaugh heard that Maury switched professions from farming to insurance. Comments that if Tilden is elected, "there will be more openings for us [former Confederates] than ever have been since the day of Appomattox." In order to write to Jeff Page...

GLC04572.44

Diary of John W. Phoenix

Early entries mostly detail the weather, regimental duties, and camp life at Little Rock, Arkansas. On 21 January he indicates that the regiment has received marching orders but he is to remain at camp. This marching brigade came back on 4 February...

GLC03956.02

[Collection of two documents of Captain J. S. James] Decimalized

GLC03988

[Parole for Capt. J. S. James]

Certifies Captain James of the 24th regiment of Virginia cavalry as a paroled prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia and gives him permission to go home safely and undisturbed.

GLC03988.01

to Walter Taylor

Submits a report of the operations of his command, the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia from 28 March to 9 April 1865, the days leading up to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Detailed account of troop movements, skirmishes with Union forces...

GLC04019

to Lieutenant Horn

Venable, aid to General Robert E. Lee, instructs Horn to destroy a bridge and make his way to Amelia Court House.

GLC04095

to unknown

Postscript to an unknown letter, stating that he was not present at Lee's surrender, but was with Sherman when Johnston surrendered.

GLC04195.54

Campaigning with Grant

Published by The Century Co. in New York and printed by The DeVinne Press. The two volumes contain 32 chapters, which cover the period from Grant's move to the eastern theatre in 1864 until Lee's surrender in 1865. Contains tipped-in autographs...

GLC04203

to unknown

Regarding Confederate troop movements. Written on the same day Confederate forces laid down their arms at Appomattox Court House.
In pencil.

GLC04210.04

[Collection of Charles Woolston, 3rd regiment, Pennsylvania, cavalry] [Decimalized .01-.21]

Includes death certificate, description of Petersburg and Appomattox. Woolston died of typhoid shortly after Lee's surrender.

GLC03523.26

to Benjamin A. Wooston and Maria Woolston

Written from headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Writes to his parents in Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Reports that they broke camp in front of Petersburg on 28 March, forced the Confederate forces out of Petersburg, and chased them...

GLC03523.26.08

[Special Field Order no. 54]

Signed by Dodge, a Brigadier General as an official notice. Notifies the Union army that General Robert E. Lee has surrendered his entire army to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse. Ends with, "Glory to God . . A little more labor, a...

GLC03553

to Delia Slocum

re: Records the reaction in camp to Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox. "Cheering, yelling an shooting of there guns and it was kept up till about three Oclock this morning[.]"

GLC03791.025

[Collection of Eleazer L. Sarsons, C company, 4th regiment, New Hampshire, infantry] [decimalized]

Contains account of his capture and release from Andersonville; his exchange; Lee's surrender. Includes description and drawing of Fort Marion.

GLC03953

to his brothers and sisters

Explains the course of travel that brought him to Goldsboro, North Carolina and his expectation to head to the front. Comments that "this Rebellion is about played out they are in our grasp. Lee has surrendered and Johnson is hemed in...Richmond is...

GLC03953.01

[Announcement of the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox]

Published version of Custer's letter to the soldiers of the Third Cavalry Division thanking them for their outstanding service and praising them for their courage and accomplishments at war. Issued at Appomattox Court House. Custer signed as Brevet...

GLC05071

to Mrs. Walbridge

Writes to his mother that Union General William T. Sherman's army is in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is also comfortably stationed. Reports that they left Faisson's depot on 10 April and marched four days to Raleigh. Recounts his duty during...

GLC04662.101

to Louise Walbridge

Informs his brother that since they last communicated, several important events have taken place, the defeat and capture of General Robert E. Lee, the occupation of Richmond, and General Joseph E. Johnston's surrender to Generals Ulysses S. Grant and...

GLC04663.61

Collection of three items related to Dighton Goddard [Decimalized]

GLC03608

Red wood heart of Dighton Goddard

Small, carved wooden heart painted red with writings in pencil, "Appomattox April 9th, 1865."

GLC03608.02

Wooden heart of Dighton Goddard

Small unpainted wooden carved heart with writing in pencil, "Lee surr. at App., Apr. 9, a time of rejoy and shouting."

GLC03608.03

Brownlow's Knoxville Whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 2, no. 9 (April 12, 1865)]

English opinions 1861-65, Glorious news - Surrender of Lee's army - General Sherman's visit to General Grant.

GLC05959.50.56

The Surrender of General Lee

Title continues, "and his entire army to Lieut. General U.S. Grant, April 9, 1865." Depicts Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee in front of a tree in a field. Grant is rendered in the act of handing Lee the...

GLC05472

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 31, no. 5, whole no.3892 (April 5, 1865)]

Richmond now being evacuated, Letter by President Davis to General Lee, General Lee to General Grant, General Grant to General Lee.

GLC05959.54.48

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 31, no. 9, whole no.3896 (April 14, 1865)]

Dispatches from eastern cities show great excitement over the fall of Richmond & Petersburg, Lee's surrender.

GLC05959.54.50

[Unionist epitaph for the Confederacy]

Large card printed on white glossy cardstock. Printed by James B. Rodgers at 52 & 54 North Sixth Street in Philadelphia. Dated the day of Lee's surrender. Says "Died near the south-side rail road, on Sunday, April 9, 1865, The Southern Confederacy...

GLC06056

Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]

Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.

GLC06107.06

The Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (April 13, 1865)]

Issue is dedicated to General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Prints the correspondence between General Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant leading up to the surrender. Prints general orders. Includes articles on the fall of the Confederate...

GLC06107.26

Richmond Whig. [Vol. 1, no. 7 (April 11, 1865)]

Union-occupation issue, covering the fall of Richmond shortly before and the surrender of Robert E. Lee two days before. The front page contains biographical sketches of Confederate generals killed at Richmond or Petersburg, or who played an...

GLC06843