After abandoning Petersburg and Richmond, Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia marched west. Lee planned to resupply his men and then move south to rendezvous with Gen. Joseph Johnston's Army of Tennessee in North Carolina. Union forces under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant overtook Lee at Sailor's Creek on April 6, 1865. By the end of the battle, 7,700 soldiers, one-quarter of Lee’s army, were prisoners. Lee surrendered to Grant three days later at Appomattox Court House.