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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.

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