Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1915 — Fiftieth Anniversary of Surrender of General Lee. [ARTICLE]

Fiftieth Anniversary of Surrender of General Lee.

It was fifty years ago today that General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulyses S. Grant. This brought about the close of the civil war and restored the nation to peace after four years of terrible strife. The event is to be the occasion this evening of a celebration at the Grand Army hall, the Post and the Sons of Veterans having arranged a patriotic program and invited the ladies’ auxiliaries to be in attendance. There will be present this evening only two veterans who were in General Grant’s army during the Appomattox campaign, John Kresler and Burgess Dillon, and they are to relate some of the incidents of the campaign that cut Lee off from his base and made his surrender or crushing defeat essential. Other speakers will discuss some of the other features of the closing days of the great struggle and a girls’ quartet from the high school will sing two songs.