Referring to the terms of the surrender and particularly to the additional clauses related to the franchise towards the surrendering ranks and files, Lee said roughly:
"This will be a great effect on my Army"
Robert E. Lee sing the official surrender of the war on palm Sunday April,9, 1865
1865. It wasn't a peace treaty but rather a surrender bu Robert E. Lee.
1865. It wasn't a peace treaty but rather a surrender bu Robert E. Lee.
There was no treaty, and the Civil War was the first war that the US won without a treaty being signed. Although Abraham Lincoln had never demanded an unconditional surrender, and although Jefferson Davis had ordered Lee to continue fighting, Lee disobeyed that order and surrendered the Confederacy unconditionally. In return Grant allowed terms which were very lenient, and it is sometimes supposed that a treaty was singned, but it was in fact an unconditional surrender.
he DID surrender.
Robert E. Lee surrendered in the Appomattox Courthouse.
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Robert E. Lee died of a stroke in 1870, which was 5 years after his surrender at Appomattox.
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Because his men were barefoot and starving.