in Richmond Virginia. the confederates capital.
Virgina, 1865
because they new they would lose
the south surrendered at appotamox courthouse
It was the end of the Civil War.
General Robert E. Lee
No, they did not surrender. This was the first battle of the Civil War which took place in South Carolina in 1861.
The surrender of the confederate states ended the war
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Grant for the North, Lee for the South
The Confederates had abandoned Richmond, and they were trying to head West, but ran out of steam at Appomattox Court House. Tha was where the surrender took place - officially an armistice, not a treaty. But it is taken as the end-point of the Civil War.
Appomattox Court
Robert E. Lee