1. COLONEL HORACE PORTER
3. COLONEL T. S. BOWERS
5. GENERAL JOHN G. BARNARD
7. GENERAL U. S. GRANT
9. GENERAL SETH WILLIAMS
11. COLONEL ADAM BADEAU
2. COLONEL WILLIAM DUFF
4. COLONEL J. D. WEBSTER
6. GENERAL JOHN A. RAWLINS
8. GENERAL M. R. PATRICK
10. GENERAL RUFUS INGALLS
12. COLONEL E. S. PARKER]
No photographer was present at Appomattox, that supreme moment in our
national history, when Americans met for the last time as foes on the
field. Nothing but fanciful sketches exist of the scene inside the McLean
home. But here is a photograph that shows most of the Union officers
present at the conference. Nine of the twelve men standing above stood
also at the signing of Lee's surrender, a few days later. The scene is
City Point, in March, 1865. Grant is surrounded by a group of the officers
who had served him so faithfully. At the surrender, it was Colonel T. S.
Bowers (third from left) upon whom Grant called to make a copy of the
terms of surrender in ink. Colonel E. S. Parker, the full-blooded Indian
on Grant's staff, an excellent penman, wrote out the final copy. Nineteen
years later, General Horace Porter recorded with pride that he loaned
General Lee a pencil to make a correction in the terms. Colonels William
Duff and J. D. Webster, and General M. R. Patrick, are the three men who
were not present at the interview. All of the remaining officers were
formally presented to Lee. General Seth Williams had been Lee's adjutant
when the latter was superintendent at West Point some years before the
war. In the lower photograph General Grant stands between General Rawlins
and Colonel Bowers. The veins standing out on the back of his hand are
plainly visible. No one but he could have told how calmly the blood
coursed through them during the four tremendous years.
[Illustration: GRANT BETWEEN RAWLINS AND BOWERS]
[Illustration: IN PETERSBURG--AFTER NINE MONTHS OF BATTERING