"they returned home in peace and taking there this they loved with them"
^This is true, but a better explanation is that he:
Grant offered generous terns to surrender, after, laying down their arms the Confederats could return home in peace, taking their private possessions and horses with them. Grant also gave food to the hungry Confederate soldiers.
With the surrender of the Confederate army under General Lee to Grant at Appomattox the task of reconstruction began.
"they returned home in peace and taking there this they loved with them"^This is true, but a better explanation is that he:Grant offered generous terns to surrender, after, laying down their arms the Confederats could return home in peace, taking their private possessions and horses with them. Grant also gave food to the hungry Confederate soldiers.
the confederate soldiers were permitted to keep there swords and horces
The two main figures at the Appomattox Court House to discuss the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia were Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General US Grant. Grant was respectful of the Confederate general. As a display of goodwill, Grant ordered for 25,000 rations for Lee's starving army.
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If you mean after the surrender at Appomattox, then I think Grant was fairly generous about it. If it was before the surrender, he would just have said "Run up the white flag, buddy boy." He had of course ended prisoner exchange as soon as he became General-in-Chief.
The principal surrender was that of Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee to Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox, VA in April 1865.
General Custer's cavalry had destroyed the Confederate defenses between Richmond and Appomattox. Lee had retreated to the west from Richmond hoping for his army to hide behind those defenses. They were not there. At Appomattox, General Grant gave General Custer the table on which the surrender document was signed.
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Grant surrendered to Robert E. Lee at Appomattox
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