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The Lee and Grant Meet wayside marker is on the northeast side of the village along the path of the old Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road. It is next to the Salute of Arms wayside marker. An older iron tablet dating to the early days of the park also commemorates the meeting.
From the marker:
Lee and Grant Meet
On the knoll before you, Lee and Grant held the second of their two meetings at Appomattox Court House. They met here on the morning of April 10. Grant hoped to enlist Lee’s support in urging the surrender of other Confederate armies, and Lee was intent on working out the final details of surrender.
Lee refused Grant’s request to exert his influence with other armies. But the two officers did resolve details of the surrender. Grant agreed to provide the Confederates with individual parole passes to safeguard their journey home. He would also allow surrendered soldiers to pass free on all government transportation on their way home.
During their two meetings at Appomattox, not a harsh word passed between Lee and Grant. Wrote one Confederate: “General Grant and his men treated us nobly, more nobly than was ever a conquered army treated before of since.” The process of reconciliation had already begun.
From the caption to the inset painting:
The First Day of Peace, A 1922 painting of the April 10 meeting between Lee and Grant.
From the caption to the background photograph:
This 1890s photograph shows the landscape here much as it appeared in 1865. Lee’s army spent its final days bivouacked on the ridge in the distance. The white sign marks the spot of the Lee-Grant meeting of April 10.
From the tablet:
On this spot Lieutenant
General Ulysses S. Grant, U.S.A.
and General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.
met on the morning of April 10th,
1865.
Location
The Lee and Grant meet wayside marker is on the northeast side of the Appomattox Court House Village on the north side of the old Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road, now a walking trail. It is about 400 yards from the Visitor Center.