American Historical Ephemera and Photography

Period manuscript copy of Ulysses S. Grant's terms of surrender offered to Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. Headquarters, Army of the US, 10 April 1865. 

One page, 7 7/8 9 7/8 in., creased at folds with minor separations, wear to left edge.

General Grant offers terms of surrender to General Lee including a requirement that rolls of all officers and men be made in duplicate and given to one officer designated by Grant and the other to an officer designated by Lee, that the officers give individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged, that each company and regimental commander sign a letter of parole for their men, and that arms, artillery, and public property be turned over to officers appointed by Grant, excluding officers' side arms, private horses, and baggage. Officers and men are given permission to return to their homes undisturbed as long as they observe the bounds of their paroles and the laws in effect in their given locations.