The Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia is where the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. It was Robert E. Lee who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
The principal surrender was that of Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee to Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox, VA in April 1865.
No. The surrender of the Confederacy showed that the Union army and navy could conquer the south. It showed that the Union forces could make the South abandon slavery. The South had no choice in the matter.
The Union began having battlefield successes against the Confederacy. Major Union victories at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg led Union leaders to believe that the Confederacy would soon have to surrender.
Grant from the Union and Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy.
The confederacy army surrendered on April 18, 1865, thereby ending the civil war. Slavery was abolished in Southern states, and the confederacy accepted to be part of the Union. The confederacy would not pursue secession from the Union.
April 12th 1861
Lincoln's appeal for volunteer Union troops after the surrender of Fort Sumter.
in the year of late 1865, the surrender of the confederacy and the victorious union General Lee surrendered to new US Union general Ulyyses Grant in Virginia's capital in Lee's home (that's my best answer
Lee only surrendered his portion of the army, The army of Norther Virgina, the confederacy (president Jefferson Davis) never surrendered, the war ended because the union had far more men, which allowed them to occupy the confederacy, forcing the confederacy into submission.
It was part of the Confederacy - and therefore not the Union.
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