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General Lee did not "surrender the Civil War". He surrendered his army, the Army of Northern Virginia, when it was clear that he could no longer effectively fight against the Army of the Potomac commanded by Ulysses Grant.
He was a general.
general of the south
the united America lol At Appomattox Courthouse April 09, 1865. Actual surrender tookplace at a neutral location. Family home of the McLeans in Virginia not the courthouse.
He was one of the five Full Generals created by the Confederate States government in June 1861. He held this rank until his surrender to Ulysses Grant in April 1865.
To bring this divided state into the Confederacy.
He is famous for being in the war.
when he met Abraham Lincoln
Thanks. I needed to know who surrendered to Ulysses. But he surrended to Ulysses at the battle of Appomattox Court House
Appomattox Courthouse in central Virginia, a few miles away from the present-day community of Farmville.
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He was born in 1807 on a plantation on the banks of the Potomac River.