The document outlining the terms of surrender, agreed upon by Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, which ended the Civil War in 1865. Interactive image accompanied by background information and transcript.

This article describes the events leading up to the surrender of the South and the surrender itself. Includes communication between Grant and Lee leading to their meeting at Appomattox.

Read the last orders of Robert E. Lee to the Confederate troops, relating the surrender of the South and thanking them for their service.

Lee communicates the cutoff of supplies and the events which followed it, causing his surrender.