Drawing shows General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant standing near a large tree, possibly on the "old stage road to Richmond, between the picket-lines" of both armies with officers for each standing nearby; Lee is shown holding a paper, reviewing the terms as set by Grant for surrender, as Grant gestures toward the Union forces on the right.
General In The Civil war Major General Spanish-American War
Fitzhugh Lee , son of Robert E. Lee’s elder brother Sydney Smith Lee, was a Confederate cavalry general in the Civil War and a major general of U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War. (The War Department appointed Fitz Lee commander of the Seventh Army Corps, and authorized him to establish Camp Cuba Libre near Jacksonville, Florida.)
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