General Grant allowed the soldiers to keep their horses, as he knew they would need the animals to help plow the fields when they returned home. Also, officers were allowed to keep their side arms. General Lee praised General Grant, saying his actions at that time would help to heal the country's wounds.
The Confederate soldiers were given food and we're allowed to keep their horses
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Their horses. And the officers were allowed to keep their sidearms.
Grant gave Lee generous terms of surrender. The Confederate Army of Northern Viginia was fed (at that time they were starving because of the Confederacy's lack of supplies), allowed to keep their weapons, and sent home. It is interesting to note that when Lee came to Appomattox Court House to surrender to Grant, Grant was so excited to meet the famous general that Lee had to remind him that they were there to arrange a surrender.
Lieutenant General Grant wrote very generous terms of surrender to General Lee. Like President Lincoln, Grant was glad the fighting was coming to an end. He had no wish to hurt the South more. In his terms of surrender, Grant wrote that there would be no prisoners of war. General Grant did not take away all the horses from the Confederate soldiers, for he realized that the Southern farmers would need these animals to help plant crops for the now starving South. The Officers of the Confederate army were allowed to keep their guns. General Lee was allowed to keep his sword. Grant was also able to supply 25,000 ration kits for Lee's starving men. When Lee read the terms of surrender that Grant had written, he said gratefully, "You have been very generous to the South."
Dead right, they did - "Stack Arms!" was the first command given on surrender. However, at Appomattox, Grant allowed Lee and his officers to keep their sidearms.
Grant will give them food and let them go back home. i got my answer from a civil war book. its not what is said above! This is what the terms really were: "Grant's terms were generous. The Confederate soldiers had to lay down their arms, but then were free to go home."
The Confederate soldiers were given food and we're allowed to keep their horses
His sword Grant let Lee his sidearm, his saber, and his horse.
The Japanese could keep Emperor Hirohito .
All officers and enlisted men had to be let go ut relinquish all artillery. Grant allowed Lee's Officers keep their horses, as they would be needed when they turned back to civilian lfe.
The terms of surrender were that the men were free to go home, they could keep their horses to use for farming, and they were permitted to keep their sidearms. A sidearm (sword or pistol) is generally a defensive weapon- and it meant that Gen. Lee would not surrender his sword to Gen. Grant- a symbolic act of surrender. The men surrendering realized they were being given good treatment.
Yes. But there were no jailings of officers or rank-and-file, and he was allowed to keep his sword.
That soldiers be allowed to keep horses for farming
after Lee surrendered, the north was very generous on the surrendering terms to the south he allowed the southern generals and commanders to keep their homes soldiers were allowed to keep all weapons, horses, and 3 days of food for the walk/ride home none were tried for treason as some northern radicals thought they should be.