six feet high and of faultless form.
But this was not a matter that I thought of until afterwards.

We soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that
he remembered me very well in the old army; and I told him that as a
matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but from the difference in
our rank and years (there being about sixteen years' difference in our
ages), I had thought it very likely that I had not attracted his
attention sufficiently to be remembered by him after such a long
interval. Our conversation grew so pleasant that I almost forgot the
object of our meeting. After the conversation had run on in this style
for some time, General Lee called my attention to the object of our
meeting, and said that he had asked for this interview for the purpose
of getting from me the terms I proposed to give his army. I said that I
meant merely that his army should lay down their arms, not to take them
up again during the continuance of the war unless duly and properly
exchanged. He said that he had so understood my letter.

Then we gradually fell off again into conversation about matters foreign
to the subject which had brought us together. This continued for some
little time, when General Lee again interrupted the course of the
conversation by suggesting that the terms I had proposed to give his
army ought to be written out. I called to General Parker, secretary on
my staff, for writing materials, and commenced writing out the following
terms:--

APPOMATTOX C. H., VA., April 9th, 1865.

_Gen. R. E. Lee, Comd'g C. S. A._

GEN.:--In accordance with the substance of my letter to you
of the 8th inst., I propose to receive the surrender of the
Army of N. Va. on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all
the officers and men to be made in duplicate. One copy to be
given to an officer designated by me, the other to be
retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up
arms against the Government of the United States until
properly exchanged, and each company or regimental commander
sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms,
artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and
turned over to the officer appointed by me to receive them.
This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor
their private hor