Confederate General Johnston surrendered his army near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Confederate commander Kirby disbanded his army in the Trans- Mississippi on May 26th.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant the leader of the Army of the Potomac at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. Communications to various battle field locations were slow in these times and it would be another two weeks before Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrendered his army to General Sherman in North Carolina. And it more than a month before Confederate General E. George Kirby Smith, leader of the Army of Trans - Mississippi surrendered.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee was named general in chief of the Confederate States Army on January 31, 1865. His appointment came towards the end of the American Civil War, as the Confederacy faced significant military challenges. Lee had already established a reputation as a skilled commander prior to this position, particularly during his leadership in various battles in the Eastern Theater of the war.
The US Civil War ended in 1865. For all practical purposes, the date was April 9, 1865. This is when the general in chief of the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the general in chief of all Federal forces, US Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Lee led the premier army of the South, the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee urged Confederate President Jefferson Davis to end all fighting by the South. This took a few weeks, however, April 9, 1865 is the date most often referred to by historians as the ending date. As an aside, the last Confederate battle flag was lowed off the coast of England by a Confederate ship in December of 1865.
General US Grant was the General in Chief at the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in April of 1865. Later other Confederate forces would soon surrender. Lee had no choice as his food supplies were nill and his troops in bad physical shape. Grant was gracious in victory.
Confederate General W. Loring left the US after the end of the US Civil War. He traveled to Egypt and became an officer in the Egyptian army. He and other Civil War veterans helped organize the Egyptian army. He stayed there for nine years.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee was the top commander in the Confederate Army. In early April of 1861 he found his army surrounded and surrendered to US General Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1861. This effectively ended the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee. He was also General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.
Confederate General Johnston surrendered his army near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Confederate commander Kirby disbanded his army in the Trans- Mississippi on May 26th.
General Robert E Lee surrendered his Confederate army to the Union led by Ulysses S. Grant. Essentially the end of the Civil War.
The Confederate general in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Union general in charge of the Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, at Appomattox Court House, in Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
The last regular army Confederate general to surrender was Lt. Gen. E. Kirby Smith on May 26th 1865. He then fled to Mexico with some 2000 of his troops. Cherokee Chief Stand Waitie who was aligned with the Confederate army did not surrender his force of warriors from various Indian tribes until June 23rd 1865. As Waitie was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, he can be said to be the last Confederate general to surrender; however, Waitie did not command a Confederate army but rather a coalition of native American irregulars aligned with but not a part of the Confederate Armed Forces.
In the US Civil War, it was the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, not the Union General, who surrendered.
In speaking about the US Civil War, the event that for all practical purposes was the end of the war was when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General US Grant. This took place at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
Yes the Confederate Congress did allow enslaved African Americans to enlist in the army before the end of the civil war
Confederate States Army ended in 1865.