On April 10, 1865 President Jefferson Davis received the news of Lee's surrender. The then capital of the Confederacy, Danville, Virginia, was relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina.
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.
Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, (Virginia) on April 9, 1865
There was no official ending, i.e. a peace treaty - because there had been no official declaration of war in the first place. (Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.) You could cite May 10th 1865, as that was the date that the Confederacy was officially wound-up. But there were still Confederate units in combat for a few weeks after that, and some of their Generals never did surrender. That is why Appomattox (April 9th) is taken as the notional ending of hostilities, when one General-in-Chief surrendered to the other.
General Robert Edward Lee.
The Confederacy is the south which contained 13 states. The Civil War lasted from April 1861-April 1865 when Conferate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse to Union general Ulysess S. Grant,
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.
The chief military commander of the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee who headed the Army of Northern Virginia. He surrendered to the same position in the Union, General Ulysses S. Grant, who headed the Army of the Potomac on April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.
General Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865. This took place at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
It was on April 9th,1865
April 9, 1865.
On April 10, 1865 President Jefferson Davis received the news of Lee's surrender. The then capital of the Confederacy, Danville, Virginia, was relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina.
April 9, 1865 if anyone knows what battle he surrendered at plz tell!!
Robert E. Lee was the general of the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant was the general of the union. On April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox courthouse in Appomattox Country, Virginia Lee surrendered to Grant putting a end to the civil war.
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.
There was no official ending, i.e. a peace treaty - because there had been no official declaration of war in the first place. (Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.) You could cite May 10th 1865, as that was the date that the Confederacy was officially wound-up. But there were still Confederate units in combat for a few weeks after that, and some of their Generals never did surrender. That is why Appomattox (April 9th) is taken as the notional ending of hostilities, when one General-in-Chief surrendered to the other.
The North, or the Union, which is why there are no black slaves in America. The South, the Confederacy, surrendered on April 9, 1865.