After an 8 day campaign, Confederate General Lee's troops were surrounded by the Union troops. Lee sent a letter to Grant to discuss surrender. The two men met at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April of 1865. There they wrote out the terms of agreement. The terms included the parole of officers and giving up of Confederate equipment . Grant was forgiving and simple in his terms to Lee, even letting the Confederates keep their horses to farm with. Grant and Lee peacefully ended the brutal war with their written agreement of surrender on April 9th, 1865. Grant recognized that the best end to the war was to allow the Confederate troops to go back and live as peacefully as possible as US citizens.