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When Lee came to surrender at Appomatox Court House, one of Grant's first questions was as to the state of Lee's men. When informed that the food was gone, captured in a rearguard action during the retreat from Richmond and that Lee's men were starving, he sent an aide with orders to immediately distribute rations to the Confederate soldiers. That set the surrender on extremely amicable terms for the remainder of the meeting.
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This would be the last time General Grant sees President Lincoln alive. General Grant was to be Lincolnâs guest of honor at Fordâs Theater the night Lincoln is shot; instead, Grant opted to go with his wife to visit his in-laws. In fact, the conspirators named Grant as one of the targets for assassination, and wouldâve done so had he been there. The other targets being Secretary of State William Seward, who was attacked and barely survived, and Vice President Andrew Johnson, whose would-be assassin backed out at the last moment. Upon hearing the news that Lincoln had been shot that night, Grant was reported to have sobbed uncontrollably, even more so than he famously did during the Wilderness campaign. Not only did he lose a friend, which is what Lincoln had become by this point, but imagine the guilt he mightâve felt that he was supposed to be there, as well, and wasnât.
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My great great grandfather was an artillery officer at Antietam where he was injured. He then was assigned to the staff of Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. When Lincoln appointed Chase to the Supreme Court in late 1864, my great great grandfather was assigned to Grant's staff and was at Appomattox along with Robert Lincoln. My great great grandfather kept a diary and in it stated he wouldn't have been so magnanimous most of all towards Lee who at West Point swore a solemn oath to defend flag and country.
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Ulysses S. Grant: THERE IS GRAPHITE ON THE GROUND Lincoln: what???
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