Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. E. LEE, General.
To Lieutenant General Grant, Commanding United States Army.
April 9th, 1865.
Gen. R. E. Lee, Commanding Confederate States Army:
Your note of this date is but this moment, 11.50 a. m., received.
In consequence of having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburg road, I am, at this writing, about four miles west of Walter’s Church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you.
Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.
Very respectfully.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant General.