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The following extract from General Lee's final report to President Davis
announcing the surrender is interesting :

His Excellency Jefferson Davis:

Mr. President :—It is with pain that I announce to Your Excellency the surrender of the
Army of Northern Virginia. . . . Upon arriving at Amelia Court House on the morning
of the 4th with the advance of the army . . . and not finding the supplies ordered to be
placed there, nearly twenty-four hours were lost in endeavoring to collect in the country
subsistence for men and horses. This delay was fatal and could not be retrieved. . . . On
the morning of the 9th . . . there were 7,892 organized infantry with arms, with an
average of seventy-five rounds of ammunition per man. ... I have no accurate report
of the cavalry, but believe it did not exceed twenty-one hundred effective men. The enemy
was more than five times our numbers. If we could have forced our way one day longer, it
would have been at a great sacrifice of life, and at its end I do not see how a surrender could
have been avoided. The supplies ordered to Pamplin's Station from Lynchburg could not retch
us, and the men, deprived of food and sleep for many days, were worn out and exhausted.
With great respect, your obedient servant,

R. E. LEE, General.

List of officers and men of the Second Maryland Infantry surrendered at
Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865 :

John W. Torsch, Captain Commanding; William R. McCullough, Adjutant; DeWilton
Snowden, Assistant Surgeon; Edwin James, Quartermaster's Sergeant; Frank Dement,
Sergeant-Major; F. L. Higdon, Ordnance Sergeant; M. A. Quinn, Chief Musician;

Charles F. Drewry, Joseph E. Smith, Musicians.

COMPANY A.—Corporal H. Tillard Smith, Privates William J. Edelin, Bernard
Freeman, Henry Holliday, John J. Hunter, William H. Laird, William E. Lowe, N. L. Love,
John W. McDaniel, Alex. Murray, Edward O'Donovan, Jas. A. Peregoy, Andrew T. Miller.

COMPANY B.—Sergeant Philip T. Reedcr, Privates Henry Ford, Thomas Magill, William
G. Matthews, John C. Mills, A. W. Neale, F. X. Semmes, James A. Wills. Walter Wood.

COMPANY C.—Corporal B. D. Mulliken, Privates Evans Duvall, Franklin Duvall,
J. N. Blumenauer, William H. Clagett, William Grace, Thomas Mitchell, James R. Moog,
Peter Orr, Joshua Watts.

COMPANY D.—Sergeants Thomas C. Butler, Isaac N. Sherwood, Privates Samuel B.
Dove, R. H. Shepherd.

COMPANY E.—Sergeant Wilbur Rutter, Privates William Gavin, Edward Lawn, Joseph
Ridgel, William Unkel. William F. Brawner, James Gardner, Elisha Rutter.

COMPANY F.—Privates G. W. Clagett, G. N. Guy. John O. Hill, A. V. Keepers.

COMPANY G.—Sergeant Daniel A. Fenton, Privates John Callahan, William Pickel,
Joseph Manly, William R. Mumford

COMPANY H.—John Parker.