Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox was unconditional, and soldiers except for partisan raiders were given amnesty.
Appomattox Courthouse
If that is the US Civil War, it was the Old Appomattox Courthouse.
Generally speaking the surrender of Robert E. Lee to US General Grant is referred to as the surrender at the Appomattox Court House. Lee's surrender was the key which in all practical terms ended the US Civil War. Later other Southern armies would surrender.
It was a gesture to heal the country's wounds, to show the southerners they had nothing fear from their former enemies.
They never 'seized' him. He surrendered his forces to the Union Army at the Appomattox Courthouse (which is now a historical park... the current Appomatox Court House was built in 1892) approximately three miles east of Appomattox, Virginia.
April 9th, 1865 Appomattox, Virginia Negotiations began between General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses S Grant in the McLean House near Appomattox Court House, and the terms of surrender were agreed upon. The papers were signed, at which time Lee left for his headquarters in the court house.
Grant's terms of surrender was that lee's solders could keep there small firearms, the officers could keep there horses and no one would disturb the Solders on the way home. in addition Grant also gave 25,000 rations to feed lee's troops.
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.
Appomattox
The final battle of the American Civil War was at Palmito Ranch, Texas, on May 19, 1865; it was a month after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
It seems as it was Oliver Mitzlaf !
was surrounded on three sides It was the end of the war and he had to agree to his terms of surrender