General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865 after defeats at Vicksburg, Richmond, and Petersburg.
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What are the causes of when Lee met Grant and agreed to surrender ?
Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
General Lee did not surrender in Atlanta. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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His last major battle was the Siege of Petersburg. When Lee abandoned his positions there and tried to escape, there were minor engagements at Five Forks and Appomattox before the final surrender.
Generally speaking the surrender of Robert E. Lee to US General Grant is referred to as the surrender at the Appomattox Court House. Lee's surrender was the key which in all practical terms ended the US Civil War. Later other Southern armies would surrender.