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Who was given the honor of commanding the troops that formally accepted the surrender of the confederate army?
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∙ 11y ago
Good question.
I'm assuming you mean the Army of Northern Virginia - there was no 'Confederate Army', as such, in the field. Also there was one other fairly sizeable army of Confederates that did not surrender for about another two weeks, as well as other small units West of the Mississippi that continued to operate beyond that.
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was defeated by the Army of the Potomac, commanded by George Meade. Many people felt that the honour should go to Meade for this reason.
However, that army had been closely accompanied by U.S.Grant, travelling in a mobile HQ.
As Lee was also General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies, and Grant was his opposite number in that capacity, it was decided that Grant should take the surrender.
IMPROVEMENT.
Perhaps the question is focused on the formal ceremony of surrendering that took place on Apr.12,1865, when the survivors of the Army of Northern Virginia, about 28 000 troops, paraded to lay down their weapons, division after division, officers on horseback, waving flags at the head of regiments and received the honors of war by a Unionist division deployed under the command of General Joshua Chamberlain.
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