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There was no Peace Treaty, because Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.

The Confederacy was officially wound-up in early May 1865, which might be taken as a fixed point for the ending of hostilities, though there were still a few Confederate units West of the Mississippi engaged in small skimishes, and quite a lot of Confederate officers on the run, refusing to seek pardon.

That is why Appomattox is taken as the notional end of the war, even though Joe Johnston had yet to surrender to Sherman. This was the epic moment, and those two very different men, the solemn aristocrat Lee and the plain ordinary Grant, both felt deeply that they were making history, and it brought out the noble side in both of them.

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