somewhere over the rainbow to your mom's house
The southern general who signed the surrender papers for the Army of Northern Virginia in April (the 9th) of 1865 was General Robert E. Lee. As overall commander of the army, he chose to meet personally with his opposite "number" in the Union force, General Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender was signed at the Appomattox Court House (Virginia) and led directly to the end of the Civil War as a whole.
The first instrument of Surrender was signed at Rheims, France, 7 May 1945 .
Appomattux Court House
There was no treaty, and the Civil War was the first war that the US won without a treaty being signed. Although Abraham Lincoln had never demanded an unconditional surrender, and although Jefferson Davis had ordered Lee to continue fighting, Lee disobeyed that order and surrendered the Confederacy unconditionally. In return Grant allowed terms which were very lenient, and it is sometimes supposed that a treaty was singned, but it was in fact an unconditional surrender.
it is the treaty which the Germans signed for the surrender of world war 1.
The surrender papers of the Civil War were signed in the home of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The signing took place on April 9, 1865, marking the end of the Civil War.
The Civil War ended when Lee signed the surrender papers at appomattox court house on April 18th to U. S. Grant.
Bennett Place
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
The southern general who signed the surrender papers for the Army of Northern Virginia in April (the 9th) of 1865 was General Robert E. Lee. As overall commander of the army, he chose to meet personally with his opposite "number" in the Union force, General Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender was signed at the Appomattox Court House (Virginia) and led directly to the end of the Civil War as a whole.
The surrender papers were signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri as it was at anchor in Tokyo Bay.
No - the Appomattox courthouse is where the surrender was signed.
Japan signed the surrender aboard the USS Missouri while it was at anchor in Tokyo Harbor, Tokyo, Japan.
He was pretty much a bad dude in the Civil War. Started out as a second lieutenant. He was promoted from captain to brigadier general of volunteers at the age of 23. And later major general. He was an excellent brigade cavalry commander. He was presented the table which General Lee signed the surrender papers of the war.
Officially, on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865 when General Lee signed a surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia
USS Missouri (BB-63)
The Civil War officially ended on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865 when Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed the surrender.