Appomattox Courthouse, near Petersburg, where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S.Grant, General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
The major surrender of Confederate forces took place on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. There were other, smaller, surrenders throughout the sping and summer of that year. A few towns in the deep south and Texas did not surrender for several years.
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Was WHAT a major battle of the Civil War?
The Battle of Vicksburg was the last major action of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Grant's Union forces drove the Confederate forces into a defense of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Two major assaults were held off, but the third siege, lasting 10 days, resulted in the Confederate's surrender. This action is considered to be one of the major turning points of the American Civil War.
Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Petersburg were all major Union victories in the American Civil War.
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First Major Battle of the American Civil War.
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A journal written by a Civil War soldier describing a major battle
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