Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant .
General Lee and General Grant.
Grant from the Union and Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy.
The victorious general, Ulysses Grant, and the loser Robert E. Lee.
Ulysses Grant took the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. Other generals in his army (though not present at the formal surrender, which was just the two of them) included Phil Sheridan, Gordon Meade and G.K. Warren.
The two main figures at the Appomattox Court House to discuss the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia were Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General US Grant. Grant was respectful of the Confederate general. As a display of goodwill, Grant ordered for 25,000 rations for Lee's starving army.
Lee formally surrendered to Grant at D. Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. This marked a significant moment in the American Civil War, effectively leading to the end of the conflict. The surrender took place in the parlor of Wilmer McLean's home and was characterized by a sense of mutual respect between the two generals.
Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, purely because his lines had worn so thin that they couldn't hold. This was taken as the virtual ending of the war, although Joe Johnston still commanded a Confederate army in North Carolina that did not surrender to Sherman for a couple more weeks.
The two generals who met in Durham, North Carolina, to effectively end the Civil War in that region were General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army and General Joseph E. Johnston of the Confederate Army. Their meeting took place on April 18, 1865, where they negotiated terms of surrender. This meeting followed the fall of Richmond and the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. The terms agreed upon were later formalized, leading to Johnston's surrender on April 26, 1865.
The small town was Appomattox, Virginia, but the towndidn't agree to anything. The two generals agreed to meet in the courthouse there for the signing of the surrender that ended the Civil War. The town was just the meeting place.Although all Confederate forces had not yet surrendered, Lee's surrender, for all practical purposes was the end of the Civil War. Yes, Jefferson Davis still had hope, however, with the Army of Northern Virginia now in surrender, the war was over.By all measures the small bit of fighting ended in May of 1865.
General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse meant that the largest of the Confederate armies had given up the fight. Within two weeks all other large Confederate forces learned of Lee's decision to end the fight and also surrendered. The surrender meant that the war that had consumed over 600,000 young lives was finally going to end.
The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee was under siege at Petersburg, where U.S.Grant was simply waiting for them to run out of manpower and supplies. By the end, they were barefoot and starving, but Lee was a unusually inspirational leader. The inevitable surrender at Appomattox Court House was a highly emotive experience for the two Generals.
The Nazi German Leader Admiral Doenitz surrendered in Berlin to Field Marshall Montgomery and they signed the Instrument of Surrender. The next day Admiral Doenitz had to sign another Instrument of Surrender with the Soviets in Berlin. The Japanese signed the Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri Ship with General MacArthur and some admirals.