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Appomattox Virginia, in the home of the McLean family.
Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, which is taken as the effective end of hostilities.
Since the Confederate General Pemberton surrendered the city to General Grant of the Union Army, I suspect the Union claimed victory.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to US Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Lee's army was few in number and starving for food. Grant had a huge army and Lee had no choice but to surrender.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant the leader of the Army of the Potomac at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. Communications to various battle field locations were slow in these times and it would be another two weeks before Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrendered his army to General Sherman in North Carolina. And it more than a month before Confederate General E. George Kirby Smith, leader of the Army of Trans - Mississippi surrendered.
Appomattox Virginia, in the home of the McLean family.
On Feb.16,1862, Fort Donelson fell when the Confederate Army under Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered to Grant's Union Army.
Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, which is taken as the effective end of hostilities.
Lee surrendered his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Grant's Union Army of the Potomac.?
The chief military commander of the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee who headed the Army of Northern Virginia. He surrendered to the same position in the Union, General Ulysses S. Grant, who headed the Army of the Potomac on April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.
Since the Confederate General Pemberton surrendered the city to General Grant of the Union Army, I suspect the Union claimed victory.
Pemberton's Confederate Army surrendered unconditionally to Grant's Union Army on July 4,1863.
Defeating the Confederate army to preserve the Union
General Robert Lee of the confederate surrendered to Genereal Ulysses Grant of the Union army, ending the civil war.
Robert E. Lee surrendered the only major Confederate army still inthe field (Army of Northern Virginia) to U.S. Grant, General-in-Chief of the Union forces. The victorious army was the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Meade. Some say Meade should have taken the surrrender.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to US Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Lee's army was few in number and starving for food. Grant had a huge army and Lee had no choice but to surrender.
General Robert Edward Lee.