HANG OUT YOUR BANNERS: UNION VICTORY! PEACE! Surrender of General Lee and His Whole Army (4/10/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/10/1865

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[OFFICIAL.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON April 9, 1865 -- 9 o'clock P.M.

To Maj.-Gen. Dix:

This department has received the official report of the SURRENDER, THIS DAY, OF GEN. LEE AND HIS ARMY TO LIEUT.- GEN. GRANT on the terms proposed by Gen. GRANT.

Details will be given as speedily as possible.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 4:30 P.M., April 9.

Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

GEN. LEE SURRENDERED THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON, upon the terms proposed by myself. The accompanying additional correspondence will show the conditions fully.

(Signed) U.S. GRANT, Lieut-Gen'l.

SUNDAY, April 9, 1865.

GENERAL -- I received your note of this morning, on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army.

I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in you letter of yesterday for that purpose.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R.E. LEE, General.

To Lieut.-Gen. GRANT, Commanding United States Armies.

Sunday, April 9, 1865.

Gen. R.E. Lee, Commanding Confederate States Armies.

Year note of this date is but this moment, 11:50 A.M., received.

In consequence of my having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburgh road to the Farmville and Lynchburgh road, I am at this writing about four miles West of Walter's church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you.

Notice sent to me, on this road, where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.

Very respectfully, your ob'd't servant,

U.S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I have an early dentist appointment tomorrow so I’m getting a jump on my posting.

Hang Out your Banners: Union Victory! Peace! – 2-3
The Victory: Thanks to God, the Giver of Victory – 3-6
News from Washington– 6
Editorial: Peace! The Surrender of Gen. Lee – The End of the Great Rebellion – 6-7
Editorial: Harmony Among the Generals of the Army – 7
The Amendment Abolishing Slavery – 7
Secretary Seward – 7-8
John Bull’s Obstinacy and Stupidity – 8
A Rebel Ex-Congressman in Search of Peace – 8

[BrexitBen]

Now that you’ve reached the end of The New York Times cheerleading for an unnecessary, bloody slaughter in the 1860s, you can now move on to World War One.

The New York Times was extremely excited about lying to the populace about why that insane conflict needed U.S. involvement.

Mountains of New York Times ink is available on that as well.

[nathanbedford]

So there is nothing left now for my great-grandfather and great uncle and assorted ancestors who found themselves starved, exhausted, beaten and surrendered at Appomattox but to make their way the hundred miles to home and take up responsibilities of law-abiding, if reluctant, United States citizens, all as admonished by their General, Robert E Lee. There they would mourn their dead and thank God for their survival, miraculous considering the perils of their service, and, toward the end of the century, they would erect monuments in honor of their dead comrades and of the campaigns they waged against great odds. One can argue that America has produced many great generations but these men stand shoulder to shoulder with the founding patriots and the "greatest generation" of the Second World War. I repudiate every fashionable modern tendency to demean their character or their devotion.

[wardaddy]

Well done my man

[Pikachu_Dad]

Thank you.

And thank you General Custer for cutting off Lee’s army !

[Inyo-Mono]

My great-grandfather fought in the 36th Virginia before being captured and sent to Camp Chase in Ohio and a great uncle was killed while serving under General Forrest.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Actually, it is still not over. There is still one democrat army left in the field.

It doesn’t end until June 19th.

[nutmeg]

Bkmk

[doorgunner69]

Considering what the northeast has done to us since then, a tragedy it ever happened.

[nathanbedford]

10th Va. inf.

[rxh4n1]

“I repudiate every fashionable modern tendency to demean their character or their devotion.”

Indeed. It’s vile. Denigrate the valiant foe and you denigrate the victory.

[LeoWindhorse]

The wrong side ‘won’

[Stosh]

One thing that’s interesting is that individuals who had taken up arms against the federal authority back then were treated with more dignity than a bunch of civilians who had the temerity to wander around unapproved inside the Capital building a few years ago.

[GranTorino]

Thank you.

[Locomotive Breath]

And today the descendants of the freed slaves are all the time having a big shoot-em-up in all the major U.S. cities. Way to go Union!! Maybe Johnny Reb knew something you didn’t.

[EliRoom8]

bookmark

[icclearly]

I repudiate every fashionable modern tendency to demean their character or their devotion.

Amen, brother!

Just like today, our country was divided then, and it still is today.

There's always another side to the story and the victors get to write that story like the "always right" NYT. Anyone truly interested in facts should read the book The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzo.

Lincoln was a tyrant!

Too bad. The South lost that war and paid the price then and now.

[BroJoeK]

BrexitBen: "Now that you’ve reached the end of The New York Times cheerleading for an unnecessary, bloody slaughter in the 1860s..."

The vast majority of Americans, then and now, thought the Civil War was 100% necessary and only so long & bloody because some Confederates preferred "extermination" to surrender.

BrexitBen: "you can now move on to World War One.
The New York Times was extremely excited about lying to the populace about why that insane conflict needed U.S. involvement."

The NY Times opposed US entry into WWI until Congress declared war on Germany.
The NY Times did not call for war against Germany in 1915, after a German U-Boat sank the SS Lusitania, killing 1,195 including 128 Americans.
In January 1917, the NY Times supported Pres. Wilson's proposals for "Peace Without Victory".
After Congress declared war on Germany, the NY Times supported the US war effort and Wilson's post-war peace plans, notably the League of Nations.