“THE CONFEDERATES WERE NOW OUR PRISONERS”: GRANT AT APPOMATTOX
As Ulysses S. Grant faced his destiny with fate, suffering from the effects of throat cancer, he recalls the surrender at Appomattox through the eyes of a dying man.
from Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885
“I ACCEPT THESE TERMS”: LEE AT APPOMATTOX
Walter Taylor, Robert E. Lee's aide, recounts Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. His account of the demeanor of lee and grant established the surrender narrative.
from An Aide-de-Camp of Lee, 1927
“I Would Have not Missed this for Anything”
An account of the July 3 assault on Cemetery Ridge by a British observer who witnessed the aftermath of the battle.
By Arthur Fremantle (1863)
Lee’s Old War Horse Strikes Back
The Old War Horse opens up on the War, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate Failures
By unknown interviewer, Washington Post (1893)
A.L. Long recalls a conversation with Robert E. Lee
Lee’s Military Secretary, A.L. Long, claims his chief anticipated that the battle would be fought near Gettysburg.
By A.L. Long (1886)