The scene between Lee and his devoted army was profoundly touching. General Long in his "Memoirs of Lee" says: "It is impossible to describe the anguish of the troops when it was known that the surrender of the army was inevitable. Of all their trials, this was the greatest and hardest to endure." As Lee rode along the lines of the tried and faithful men who had been with him at the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, and at Cold Harbor, it was not strange that those ragged, weather-beaten heroes were moved by deep emotion and that tears streamed down their bronzed and scarred faces. Their general in broken accents admonished them to go to their homes and be as brave citizens as they had been soldiers. Thus ended the greatest civil war in history, for soon after the fall of the Confederate capital and the surrender of Lee's army, there followed in quick succession the surrender of all the remaining Southern forces. While these stirring events were taking place in Virginia, Sherman, who had swept up through the Carolinas with the same dramatic brilliancy that marked his march to the sea, accomplishing most effective work against Johnston, was at Goldsboro. When Johnston learned of the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender he knew the end had come and he soon arranged for the surrender of his army on the terms agreed upon at Appomattox. In the first week of May General "Dick" Taylor surrendered his command near Mobile, and on the 10th of the same month, President Jefferson Davis, who had been for nearly six weeks a fugitive, was overtaken and made a prisoner near Irwinsville, Georgia. The Southern Confederacy was a thing of the past. [Illustration: MEN ABOUT TO WITNESS APPOMATTOX COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. 1. COLONEL HORACE PORTER 3. COLONEL T. S. BOWERS 5. GENERAL JOHN G. BARNARD 7. GENERAL U. S. GRANT 9. GENERAL SETH WILLIAMS 11. COLONEL ADAM BADEAU 2. COLONEL WILLIAM DUFF 4. COLONEL J. D. WEBSTER 6. GENERAL JOHN A. RAWLINS 8. GENERAL M. R. PATRICK 10. GENERAL RUFUS INGALLS 12. COLONEL E. S. PARKER]