CABINET CARD – CHAIR USED BY GEN. ULYSSES S. GRANT AT LEE’S SURRENDER IN THE WILMER MCLEAN HOUSE AT APPOMATTOX

CABINET CARD – CHAIR USED BY GEN. ULYSSES S. GRANT AT LEE’S SURRENDER IN THE WILMER MCLEAN HOUSE AT APPOMATTOX

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Item Code: 945-588

This 3 ¾” x 5 ½” photo on a 5 ¼” x 7 3/8” gray mount is in overall very fine condition, with just minor wear to the corners of the mount, and very minor damage along the lower right edge.  The mount is slightly curved outward.  Photographer’s mark at bottom left: “Partridge, Boston and Brookline, Mass.”

On April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met in the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to negotiate the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to the United States Army. Sitting in this chair, Grant discussed the fate of Lee’s troops. Then, leaning over an oval table, he drafted and signed the final terms of surrender. While there were still Confederate troops in the field under other commanders, Lee's surrender effectively marked the end of the Civil War.  Union officers, recognizing the significance of the event, individually took pieces of furniture as souvenirs. General E. W. Whitaker grabbed Lee's chair, General Henry Capehart claimed Grant's chair, and General Philip Sheridan took the table and presented it to the wife of Major General George Armstrong Custer. In three separate donations, by 1915, these items were reunited at the Smithsonian Institution.

Attached to the reverse of the mount is sheet with printed information, including a copy of an 1893 affidavit written by Gen. Capehart indicating that he had possession of the chair from 4/9/65 until 7/25/93, when it was presented to his friend, Gen. Wilmon W. Blackmar of Boston.  [ld] [ph:L]

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