Where did Robert E. Lee Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

Answer 1

Lee formally surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865.

Despite the details listed below, the US Civil War ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General US Grant on April 9, 1865. Futile attempts by President Jefferson Davis prolonged final surrender agreements throughout the South.The Civil War did not end when Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. He was merely surrendering his army. As a General, he was not allowed to discuss the surrender of the Confederate States. He surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House To be more specific, it was in Wilmer McLeans parlor, the same Wilmer McLean in whose back yard was fought in 1861 the First Battle of Bull Run. He decided he didn't like the neighborhood so much, and left shortly afterwards. To Appomattox Court House.

Robert E. Lee had the authority to surrender all Confederate forces to the Union at Appomattox Court House, being Confederate General in Chief, but did not. He only surrendered himself and his Army of Northern Virginia. He did this on April 9th 1865.

Remaining Confederate troops in various parts of the South surrendered soon after.

Answer 2

General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, was forced to surrender to General US Grant on April 9, 1865. The formal surrender papers were signed at the Appomattox Court House. Although the war was not officially ended that day, for all practical purposes the war was over. Other Confederate generals surrendered later on. In fact the last Confederate surrender was the crew of the CSS Shenandoah. Their flag was taken down in Liverpool, England in November of 1865.

Answer 3

In early April of 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the head of all Confederate forces was facing a terrible situation. He had to come to terms with Union General Grant or face annihilation. But even after abandoning Richmond and Petersburg, Lee did not immediately admit this. When he received a letter from Grant urging his surrender, Lee still did not believe his situation was a hopeless one, as Grant had depicted. In a confusing manner wrote to Grant that he was willing to discuss the surrender of the troops under his command, though not the surrender all of the forces in the Army of Northern Virginia. ( many troops were scattered in Virginia and south of it )On April 9, 1865, Lee wrote to Grant that he had received Grant's terms and was willing to talk. He surrendered his forces that same day at the Appomattox Courthouse.

Lee then gave Confederate President Jefferson Davis his assessment of the Confederacy's circumstances.

It can be understood that "surrender" after four tough years of battle is not a simple affair. Lee wrote to Davis that from what he could see and learned from other Southern commanders, an army cannot be organized and supported in Virginia.

Lee emphasized that the country east of the Mississippi River is morally and physically unable to maintain the war unaided. with no real hope for any success.

Lee's counsel to Davis was that a partisan war could be continued and hostilities extended, which however would cause great human suffering and total devastation to the South. Lee advised Davis that such actions, ( a guerrilla war ) had no prospect of achieving independence.

Lee then left it to Davis to decide, however, strongly advised him to spare the useless waste of more blood. Lee recommended to Davis that all measures should be taken to suspend hostilities and restore peace.

Davis received this officially on April 12, 1865. Davis discussed this with the generals of other Southern armies and finally on May 26, 1865, the remaining forces of the Confederate army lowered their battle flags. The war was over.

Davis foolishly did not surrender until those flags in Trans-Mississippi were lowered. This delay had caused more conflicts and loss of life.