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The chief military commander of the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee who headed the Army of Northern Virginia. He surrendered to the same position in the Union, General Ulysses S. Grant, who headed the Army of the Potomac on April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.
With the surrender of the Confederate army under General Lee to Grant at Appomattox the task of reconstruction began.
Grant did not surrender to Lee. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This is not an actual courthouse in the way we currently know the term, but the name of the village was actually Appomattox Court House because the county courthouse was located there. Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of the home of Wilmer McLean, a Virginia grocer.
Lee surrendered his sword and his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on Apr. 9,1865. Joseph Johnston surrendered his Army at Raleigh NC, on Apr. 18,1865. Richard Taylor surrendered the Confederate forces operating in Alabama and Mississippi on May 4, 1865. Kirby Smith surrendered the Confederate forces of Trans-Mississippi on May 26, 1865.
In may of 1864 general grant ordered general sherman to march his army out of chattanooga into Georgia.
Appotomax Courthouse
Appomattox Virginia, in the home of the McLean family.
On Feb.16,1862, Fort Donelson fell when the Confederate Army under Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered to Grant's Union Army.
Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, which is taken as the effective end of hostilities.
Lee surrendered his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Grant's Union Army of the Potomac.?
The chief military commander of the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee who headed the Army of Northern Virginia. He surrendered to the same position in the Union, General Ulysses S. Grant, who headed the Army of the Potomac on April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.
Since the Confederate General Pemberton surrendered the city to General Grant of the Union Army, I suspect the Union claimed victory.
Pemberton's Confederate Army surrendered unconditionally to Grant's Union Army on July 4,1863.
Defeating the Confederate army to preserve the Union
General Robert Lee of the confederate surrendered to Genereal Ulysses Grant of the Union army, ending the civil war.
Robert E. Lee surrendered the only major Confederate army still inthe field (Army of Northern Virginia) to U.S. Grant, General-in-Chief of the Union forces. The victorious army was the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Meade. Some say Meade should have taken the surrrender.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to US Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Lee's army was few in number and starving for food. Grant had a huge army and Lee had no choice but to surrender.