CHAPTER LXVII.
NEGOTIATIONS AT APPOMATTOX--INTERVIEW WITH LEE AT MCLEAN'S HOUSE--THE TERMS OF SURRENDER--LEE'S SURRENDER--INTERVIEW WITH LEE AFTER THE SURRENDER.
On the 8th I had followed the Army of the Potomac in rear of Lee.

I was suffering very severely with a sick headache, and stopped at a farmhouse on the road some distance in rear of the main body of the army.

I spent the night in bathing my feet in hot water and mustard, and putting mustard plasters on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning.

During the night I received Lee's answer to my letter of the 8th, inviting an interview between the lines on the following morning.

(*43) But it was for a different purpose from that of surrendering his army, and I answered him as follows: HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE U.S., April 9, 1865.
GENERAL R.E.LEE, Commanding C.S.