The Confederate forces surrendered on April 9, 1865, in the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean.
Improved answer: Well...Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9th, 1865.
Joseph Eggleston Johnston surrendered on April 26th 1865 at Durham, North Carolina.
Nathan Bedford Forrest surrender on May 9th 1865 at Gainsville
Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered on May 26th 1865.
The final Confederate to surrender was the Native American Stand Watie. He signed a cease fire at Fort Twoson in the Choctaw Nations area of the Indian Territory on June 23rd 1865.
Several Confederate never surrendered.
In various locations, Lee at Appomatox was only one of the military surrenders of the war.
Because the Confederates shelled it into surrender before Lincoln was able to run supplies to the island-fort.
Well, when Cornwallis surrendered, it had been just a battle that he lost. But when Robert E. Lee surrendered it was the whole reason to why the confederates lost the Civil War.
He was generous in victory, and gave Lee no pretext to send the defeated Confederates into the hills to carry on extended guerrilla warfare out of revenge.
The traditional beginning to the Civil War was 4:30 AM on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The traditional ending to the war was April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. Some Confederates in the West did not surrender until June, and the C.S.S. Shenandoah did not surrender to British authorities until November. The last official Confederates to surrender was in June of 1866, when three Confederates stationed in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp surrendered to Federal authorities in Suffolk, Virginia; they had not emerged from the Swamp to hear that their army had surrendered more than a year before, and had tenaciously stuck to their post.
Vicksburg's surrender closed the Mississippi to Southern traffic, completing phase two of the Anaconda Plan, leading to the defeat of the South from lack of supplies and reinforcements.
It was the battle of Vicksburg.
in Richmond Virginia. the confederates capital.
the union had to surrender to the confederates bcuz they ran out of food, were outgunned.
Appomattox Court House, after the Confederates abandoned Petersburg and Richmond.
The Confederates continued there advance toward the Chattanooga.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin affected the outcome of the civil war by holding control of little round top in the battle of Gettysburg even though he ran out of ammo, he led a charge forcing most of the confederates charging up little round top to surrender to his division. If Chamberlin did surrender, the confederates would have had control of the high ground, and possibly winning the batte of Gettysburg, wich might have won the Confederates the war
Because the Confederates shelled it into surrender before Lincoln was able to run supplies to the island-fort.
Nobody. He simply evacuated Fort Sumter and sailed home, leaving the Confederates to occupy this tiny island-fortress in Charleston harbour.
Meade never did surrender to anyone. He was the newly-appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac, which beat Lee's Confederates at Gettysburg in July 1863. Later he served alongside Grant in the Overland campaign, ending at Appomattox.
Well, when Cornwallis surrendered, it had been just a battle that he lost. But when Robert E. Lee surrendered it was the whole reason to why the confederates lost the Civil War.
The North. It was the surrender that signalled the end of the war - Lee's barefoot and starving Confederates laying down their weapons for Ulysses Grant.
His final act as General-in-Chief was to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War.