Ulysses S. Grant letter to Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865

The terms of surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. One of the original impressions from the manifold on which General U.S. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, with interlinear revisions by Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca man who had been Grant's military secretary since 1863. Parker's inscription below reads: "The above is an original in Gen. Grant's own handwriting of the terms of surrender given by him to Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. It is one of 3 or 4 impressions as written in the 'Manifold Order Book,' said book being now on file either at Hdqrs of the Army, or in the War Office. The interlineations were made by myself at Gen. Grant's dictation. The accompanying pen was used by me in transcribing the above document in ink onto Official headed paper. Ely S. Parker, A.A.G. on Gen. Grant's staff". Grant's inscription across the top reads: "The document below is one of the original impressions from the manifold on which I wrote the terms of surrender of Gen. Lee's Army at Appomattox Court House, Apr. 9th 1865. It is one the three impressions taken by the manifold. New York City, Oct. 21st 1880, U.S. Grant".