1865
The Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House was in the year 1865, on April 9th.
1865
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.
With his army surrounded, his men weak and exhausted, Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. After a series of notes between the two leaders, they agreed to meet on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted approximately two and one-half hours and at its conclusion the bloodliest conflict in the nation's history neared its end.
The Civil War began in 1861 when the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter. It ended in a surrender between Grant and Lee in 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse.
1865 was the final year of the American Civil War. Most Importantly the battle of Appomattox and Lee's surrender at the courthouse ended the war. Also fought during this year were the lesserknown Second Battle of Fort Fisher, Battle of Bentonville, Battle of Fort Stedman, Battle of Five Forks, and Battle of Palmito Ranch.
Lee surrendered to Grant in the year 1865.
The Confederacy lost the American Civil War in 1865. The war concluded with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. This defeat marked the collapse of the Confederate states' efforts to secede from the Union and maintain slavery. The war officially ended with the surrender of remaining Confederate forces later that year.
May 1864 to April 1865, in Virginia. Starting with the Battle of the Wilderness, ending with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, taken as the moment the war ended.
In 1923.
In 1865, significant events marked the end of the American Civil War, culminating in the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9. The war officially ended with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December, which abolished slavery in the United States. Additionally, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, just days after Lee's surrender, marking a pivotal moment in U.S. history.
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.