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When did grant surround lee's army in Richmond?
On the second week of April in 1865.
Who accepted the surrender of the army of northern Virginia in April 1865?
Ulysses Grant
When did General Lee surrender at Appomattox?
Where Robert E. Lee Confederate General surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses Grant, on April 9, 1865. Ending the South's attempt to create a separate nation and an American Civil War's end.
What brought the Civil War to an end in April 1865?
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army. This effectively led to the end of the Civil War.
On April 9 1865 lee surrendered to grant at?
Robert E Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox on 9 April 1865. This event was not the actual end of the war but, since the Army of Northern Virginia was the last effective Confederate force, the surrender of smaller Confederate forces and garrisons was inevitable after Lee's surrender.
What day did Robert E Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
April 9, 1865 if anyone knows what battle he surrendered at plz tell!!
What happened nine months after the battle of petersburg began?
On March 29, 1865 was fought the Battle of Five Forks, in which the Confederates were decisively defeated, thus allowing the Union Army to outflank and then break through their defensive line seizing Petersburg on April 2, 1865. That led to the fall of Richmond on april 3rd and the hastily retreat westward of the remnant of Lee's army, which encircled by Grant's Army, surrendered on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House.
Was Ulysses S. Grant assassinated five days after the US Civil War ended?
US Grant was not assassinated, in fact he became the US president in 1868. US President Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865. This was not long after Robert E. Lee surrendered his army on April 9, 1865.
Who was the general-in-chief for the union army from 1864 to 1865?
Ulysses Grant
When did the surrender happen at the appomattox courthouse?
The Confederate Army, led by General Lee, surrendered to the Union Army's General Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the American Civil War.
What was Robert E. Lee's positon in the army?
From June 1862 to April 1865, he was commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Fom January 1865 to April 1865, he was also General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.
Why did Robert E. Lee surrender in the civil war?
By April of 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia was in a state of collapse. Many soldiers had deserted, disease and starvation plagued Lee's army. It came to the point where the forces of US Grant presented an overwhelming superiority in numbers, that Lee could not defend against or attack. Lee did the best thing he could and replied to Grant's letter advising him to surrender. Lee did so on April 9, 1865.
