bowers is nervous, botches the job and turns it over to healy parker. he is a senokot indian and they say he had the best penmanship in the army. he writes out the formal terms for general grant. general lee's staff officer is marshall and they exchange those letters. that is how the surrender is effected the exchange of letters. they both do not sign one document. over the course of the meeting general grant introduces officers of the staff to general lee. some of them general lee knows very well like seth williams who was lee's adjutant at the u.s. military academy at west point. another interesting aspect is there was a young captain named robert lincoln. he was the son of president abraham lincoln. another interesting participant, a witness to this ceremony. this ragdoll of lula mclean. it was sitting on the couch when the officers came in and they moved it to the mantle during the meeting. after the meeting, some of the officers took the doll off the mantle and began tossing around. captain thomas moore of general sheridan's staff took the doll hom