Army of Northern Virginia
General Robert E. Lee General Robert E. Lee (28,231) First and Third Army Corps (Combined) (Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of soldiers paroled at Appomattox) Provost Guard: Major D. B. Bridgeford 1st Battalion Virginia Infantry (139) 44th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Company B Escort 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry (92) Engineers: Colonel T. M. R. Talcott 1st Confederate Engineers (191) 2nd Confederate Engineers (94) Artillery: Brigadier General William N. Pendleton (artillery is divided up between the four infantry and one cavalry corps) |
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Libby Custer's will states: “...the table on which the surrender of General Lee to General Grant was written...and now located in the... War Department Building in Washington, D. C., I give and bequeath to the United States Government...” Now in Smithsonian Museum of American History collections.