Copy of Grant telegraph on Lee surrender, 1865
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Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent a telegraph on April 9, 1865 from Headquarters Army of the U.S. to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Washington that read: "General Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on terms proposed by myself the accompaning additional correspondence will show the conditiions fully."
Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley, military governor of Richmond, which had fallen less than a week earlier, kept this copy of the telegram among his papers.
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- Title: Copy of Grant telegraph on Lee surrender, 1865
- Creation Date: 1865-04-09
- Subject Date: 1865
- Town: Appomattox, Washington
- State: DC, VA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions (cm): 21.5 x 13.7
- Local Code: Coll. 117, Box 4/5
- Collection: George F. Shepley papers
- Object Type: Text
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Maine Historical Society
489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822
http://www.mainehistory.org
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LC Subject Headings
Victories--United States of America--Virginia--Appomattox
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Surrenders--Confederate State of American--Virginia--Appomattox
People
Lee, Robert E.
Stanton, Edwin
Grant, Ulysses S.
Shepley, George F.
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