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What happened to the confederate soldiers when they surrendered?
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Mostly they were considered captured and "paroled" and sent on their way home. A "parole" was a promise by the captured man to return to his home and not fight any more until "properly exchanged", by a cartel of officers from the two sides who met to "exchange prisoners", by using names from lists of those captured. Nobody was entirely sure the war was over at the several Confederate surrenders, even those which took place after Lee's. Often the Rebels were given a little food by the Yankees to start them on the way home. Mostly they had to walk. In Lee's army, Lee negotiated with Grant that any Confederate soldier who claimed to own the horse he was using could keep it. Most Union horses were government property, but Confederate cavalrymen had to provide their own horses.
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What happened to confederate soldiers after Lee surrendered?
nobody could leave the union
What happened at Appotomax in the American Civil War?
The Confederate General Lee surrendered to United States General Grant ending the Civil War.
What occurred after general Robert E. Lee surrendered to general Ulysses S. Grant?
The Confederate soldiers were given food and were allowed to keep their horses.
What did the union soldiers call the gray uniformed Confederate soldiers?
They called the Confederate soldiers the Rebels or "Rebs"
Were there union and confederate soldiers?
Yes there were. Although the Union outnumbered the Confederate soldiers...
What happened to confederate soldiers after Lee surrendered?
nobody could leave the union
How many confederate soldiers were surrendered when Vicksburg surrendered?
When Vicksburg surrendered, more than 30,000 Confederate soldiers and 15 generals fell in Union hands. Furthermore the Federals seized 260 guns, 38,000 projectiles, 25,832 kilograms of powder, about 60,000 rifled Enfield muskets.
What happened to Texas immediately after the south surrendered?
Within weeks confederate president Jefferson Davis was captured and the remaining of the south surrendered.
What did the surrendered terms of the confederate commander Robert lee include?
That soldiers be allowed to keep horses for farming
What happened after General Robert e lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant?
The Confederate soldiers laid down their rifles, and went home. They were allowed to keep their horses and sidearms (pistols, swords)
What happened after general Robert E. lee surrendered to general Ulysses S. grant?
The Confederate soldiers laid down their rifles, and went home. They were allowed to keep their horses and sidearms (pistols, swords)
How long did a Confederate soldiers attack Fort Sumter before the Union surrendered?
Took yo mama 50 years
What happened at appomattox ct house?
Robert Edward Lee surrendered him and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
What happened to the horses of Confederate soldiers?
at Apppomattox Court House it was said the rebs could keep their horses to be used for farming.
What happened at the civil war?
American soldiers from the North and Confederate soldiers from the South, shot at each other and died.
Why grant allow southerner soldiers to keep their animals?
When the Confederate Army surrendered, Grant allowed the soldiers to keep their guns and their horses. He knew they would need horses to use on the farm.
What happened as the Confederate troops began to overtake the Union soldiers?
you messed up girl
