After Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, formal surrender ceremonies for his cavalry, artillery, and infantry continued for the next three days without him. On April 12, after his infantrymen had stacked arms, he left for Richmond and his family with members of his staff, including Cols. Walter Taylor and Charles Marshall and Maj. Giles Cooke, who was confined to an ambulance from wounds suffered a week earlier at Sailor’s Creek. They camped that night in woods two miles beyond Buckingham Court House, reached Cumberland County on April 13, and spent the night at Flanagan’s Mill in the home of Madison Flanagan. The next day Cooke left to join his mother and sisters near Richmond, while the others rode into Powhatan County and stopped at Windsor, the house of Lee’s brother Charles Carter Lee, at Fine Creek Mills. Finding the house crowded, the men planned to sleep in a tent but were invited to stay in the residence of John Gilliam on the adjoining farm; Lee politely declined and spent his final bivouac in his tent on Gilliam’s lawn. After breakfast with the Gilliams on April 15, Lee, Taylor, and Marshall departed with Lee’s son, Gen. William Henry Fitzhugh “Rooney” Lee, and his nephew John Lee, riding down the old river road through Powhatan and Chesterfield Counties, crossing the James River pontoon bridge at Manchester, and reaching his rented home and waiting family at 707 East Franklin Street in Richmond.