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What are the causes of when Lee met Grant and agreed to surrender ?
They surrendered in Appomatox, Virginia in 1865. The generals were Robert E. lee for the south, and Ulysses S. Grant for the north.
Appomattox.
Grant (Union) taking the surrender of Lee (Confederate). Some say that George Meade should have taken the surrender, as commander of the victorious Army of the Potomac. Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union, travelling alongside the army.
The surrender of the Confederate General of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee to the commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, ended the US Civil War. The date was April 9, 1865. Lee was the military leader of the Confederacy and as such, his surrender was valid. A few Southern military men wanted to fight a guerrilla war to harass the North but Lee was opposed to this. President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy accepted Lee's action in ending the war.
Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant .
The key participants at the Surrender at Appomatox Courthouse were Generals Lee and Grant.
Grant for the North, Lee for the South
General Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant.
General Lee and General Grant.
Grant from the Union and Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy.
What are the causes of when Lee met Grant and agreed to surrender ?
The victorious general, Ulysses Grant, and the loser Robert E. Lee.
They surrendered in Appomatox, Virginia in 1865. The generals were Robert E. lee for the south, and Ulysses S. Grant for the north.
lee surrendered to grant at Appotamox courthouse
Appomattox.
Grant did not surrender, though he lost all the early battles of the Overland Campaign. It was Grant who eventually took the surrender of Lee.