The dream quickly faded. As Lee’s army plodded westward, Grant’s divisions snipped at its heels at Amelia Court House (April 4-5), Sailor’s Creek (April 6), High Bridge (April 7), and Farmville (April 7). On April 8, near Appomattox Court House, Lee found the way blocked by massed infantry and cavalry under Sheridan. The Confederates were surrounded. On Palm Sunday, April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant. Three days later, 28,000 Confederates in the Army of Northern Virginia stacked their muskets before silent lines of Federal soldiers. Lee’s surrender left Johnston with no place to go. On April 26, near Durham, N. C., the Army of Tennessee laid down its arms before Sherman’s forces. With the surrender of isolated forces in the Trans-Mississippi West on May 4, 11, and 26, the most costly war in American history came to an end. [Illustration: The imposing farmhouse of Wilmer McLean was the site of Lee’s surrender to Grant.] [Illustration: In contrast, Johnston surrendered to Sherman in the small frame cottage of James Bennett.] [Illustration: THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 Compiled and drawn by Caroline Gray Holcomb SEPT. 1963] SUGGESTED READINGS Angle, Paul M., and Miers, E. S., eds., _Tragic Years, 1860-1865_ (2 vols., 1960) Barrett, John G., _Sherman’s March through the Carolinas_ (1956) Boatner, Mark M., III, _The Civil War Dictionary_ (1959) Catton, Bruce, _The Centennial History of the Civil War_ (2 vols., 1962-63) ____, _Glory Road_ (1952) ____, _Mr. Lincoln’s Army_ (1951) ____, _A Stillness At Appomattox_ (1953) ____, _This Hallowed Ground_ (1956) Commager, Henry S., ed., _The Blue and the Gray_ (2 vols., 1950) Coulter, E. Merton, _The Confederate States of America_, 1861-1865 (1950) Donald, David, _et al._, eds., _Divided We Fought_ (1952) ____, ed., _Why The North Won The Civil War_ (1960) Dowdey, Clifford, _The Land They Fought For_ (1955) Eaton, Clement, _A History of the Southern Confederacy_ (1954) Eisenschiml, Otto, and Newman, R. G., eds., _The American Iliad_ (1947) Foote, Shelby, _The Civil War_ (2 vols., 1958-63) Freeman, Douglas S., _Lee’s Lieutenants_ (3 vols., 1942-44) Harwell, Richard, ed., _The Confederate Reader_ (1957) ____, ed., _The Union Reader_ (1958) Henry, Robert S., _The Story of the Confederacy_ (1931, 1936) Horn, Stanley F., _The Army of Tennessee_ (1941, 1953) Jones, Archer, _Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg_ (1961) Ketchum, Richard M., ed., _The American Heritage Picture Book of the Civil War_ (1960) Miller, Francis T., ed., _The Photographic History of the Civil War_ (10 vols., 1911, 1957) Monaghan, Jay, _The Civil War on the Western Border, 1864-1865_ (1955) Nevins, Allan, _The War For The Union_ (2 vols., 1959-60) Randall, James G., and Donald, David, _The Civil War and Reconstruction_ (1961)