From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/29/1891, p. 2, c. 2

The Libby-Prison Museum is likely to become a great money-making concern during the Columbian Exposition, and now the house at Appomattox Courthouse in which the terms of surrender were arranged between LEE and GRANT has been purchased by a speculator, and, it is suspected, will also be removed to Chicago.

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