April 1865 Civil War Muster Roll, Black Soldiers At The Appomattox Court House

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  Civil War Muster Roll of Black Soldiers Serving In April 1865 Who Marched To Appomattox Court House During The Surrender Of Confederate General Robert E. Lee
  April 30, 1865-Dated Civil War Period, Black History related Partially-Printed Document, Large Muster Roll and Payroll for J. Cogswell's Company D, of the 127th United States Colored Troops, with Statement: "Broke camp near Ft. Burnham, Va., March 27th, marched to Hatcher's Run, then to Appomattox Court House, then back to Petersburg arriving April 17, 1865. Distance marched about 300 miles", Choice Very Fine.
  This impressive April 30, 1865 dated Civil War Muster and Pay Roll Document records some of the Colored Troops who marched to Appomattox Court House being present during the Surrender of Robert E. Lee. This is the first such documentation for Black Soldiers serving in that vicinity during the April 9th,1865 "Surrender" we have offered, and is no doubt rare and significant. This large size Muster Roll measures 22" x 30", two sided, being made for J. Cogswell's Company D of the 127th United States Colored Troops. This Muster Roll lists three Officers and 72 named Black Soldiers, as well as one who had died. Some interesting notations include this documentation:
  "Broke camp near Ft. Burnham, Va., March 27th, marched to Hatcher's Run, then to Appomattox Court House, then back to Petersburg arriving April 17, 1865. Distance marched about 300 miles".
  A fine item showing the Black Soldiers march, and indicating their presence at historic Surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union Army General Uylysis S. Grant at Appomattox which occured April 9th. Overall, in excellent condition with only some expected tone along the outer fold lines where folded for storage. An important Civil War and Black History related document.
  The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
  Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina, the Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Union infantry and cavalry forces under Gen. Philip Sheridan pursued and cut off the Confederates' retreat at the central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House. Lee launched a last-ditch attack to break through the Union forces to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of lightly armed cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was now backed up by two corps of federal infantry, he had no choice but to surrender with his further avenue of retreat and escape now cut off.
  The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony of parade and the stacking of arms led by Southern Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon to federal Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain of Maine marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia with the parole of its nearly 28,000 remaining officers and men, free to return home without their major weapons but enabling men to take their horses and officers to retain their sidearms (swords and pistols), and effectively ending the war in Virginia.
  This event triggered a series of subsequent surrenders across the South, in North Carolina, Alabama and finally Shreveport, Louisiana, for the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the West by June, signaling the end of the four-year-long war.
  
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