<u>B. General Lee and General Grant </u>
On April 9, 1865, Both men, Robert E. <u>Lee</u> (leader of the Confederacy) and Ulysses S. <u>Grant</u> (Leader of the Union), met in The Appomattox Court House (owned by Wilmer McLean) to sign the documents that stated the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union. The meeting took place the same day after the Battle of Appomattox Court House (Virginia, U.S.) had ended, which was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
The document was generous to the defeated Confederacy, all Confederate officers and men were pardoned, all Confederate military equipment was to be relinquished but they could go home with their horses and the Union commander agreed to send 25, 000 rations to the hungry Confederates, after Lee's request.