Did lee surrendering at appomattox court house stop all the fighting?

Answer 1

General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse caused the Army of Northern Virginia to immediately stop fighting and the capital, Richmond, was taken. A huge Southern army in North Carolina had planned a last-ditch battle against General Sherman, but about 10 days after Lee, that army surrendered also. A large force in Texas and some irregular units and raiders continued operating for months afterward.

Answer 2

Most people today think it did. But Appomattox really was only the surrender of what was left of Lee's army. There were still other Confederate forces in the field.

General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army April 26, at Bennett Place, near Durham NC., two and a half weeks after Appomattox.

Lieutenant General Richard Taylor surrendered the last remaining sizable Rebel force east of the Mississippi when he surrendered his Army at Demopolis, Alabama May 8.

The last battle of the war was at Palmito Ranch, Texas, May 12-13. It was a Confederate victory. General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered his Confederate army of the Trans-Mississippi later that month.

The last to haul down the flag were the crew of the Confederate Navy commerce raider, the CSS Shenandoah, which was in the North Pacific capturing Yankee whaling ships when a newspaper aboard a prize informed them of Lee's surrender. Several days later they encountered a British Navy ship and learned of the end of the war. They set sail for England, tying up in Liverpool in early November, where they lowered the flag and walked away.

Answer 3

No.

In theory, it could have done, since he was General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies. But it is doubtful if some of those small units in the West would have heeded the order.

So he just surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia - in a responsible and dignified way that greatly impressed both sides. The only other big Confederate army (under Joe Johnston) surrendered about a fortnight later. And after the winding-up of the Confederacy on May 5th, there were only a few small skirmishes in Texas.

Answer 4

Lee surrendered his sword and the Confederate Army of the Northern Virginia, thus signing the collapse of the Confederacy, though the fighting on the other fronts made the war go further for about four weeks.

Answer 5

No, it was the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia. The last land battle of the war was at Palmito Ranch, Texas on May 12th and 13th 1865.

Answer 6

No, Gettysburg happened in July of 1863. Lee surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865.