I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at any point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranging definitely the terms upon which the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia will be received.
U.S.GRANT, Lieut.-General.
Lee's army was rapidly crumbling.

Many of his soldiers had enlisted from that part of the State where they now were, and were continually dropping out of the ranks and going to their homes.

I know that I occupied a hotel almost destitute of furniture at Farmville, which had probably been used as a Confederate hospital.

The next morning when I came out I found a Confederate colonel there, who reported to me and said that he was the proprietor of that house, and that he was a colonel of a regiment that had been raised in that neighborhood.

He said that when he came along past home, he found that he was the only man of the regiment remaining with Lee's army, so he just dropped out, and now wanted to surrender himself.