Lee met Grant to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia - by far the biggest of the Confederate armies. There was no discussion. Grant simply imposed his own terms, and they were all that Lee could have hoped for. His men were told to hand in their weapons and sign the pledge never to take up arms against the USA. After that, they could go home.
This is often taken as the effective end of the Civil War. But there was another sizeable force in North Carolina under Joe Johnston, and this did not surrender for another two weeks. By that time, Lincoln had been assassinated, and Sherman gave Johnston terms which the new President, Andrew Johnson, considered too lenient, and the surrender had to be withdrawn and then enacted again.
Technically, there was no official end to the Civil War, as there had never been an official declaration of war. (Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.)
The Confederacy held its last cabinet meeting early in May, a few small units West of the Mississippi continued to skirmish, and a number of Confederate officers fled to Mexico rather than surrender and seek pardon.
General Lee and General Grant
Appomattox Court House
Officially, on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865 when General Lee signed a surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia
The main causes of surrender during the American Civil War are the same reason for surrender in any other war,... one side overwhelms the other.
surrender at Appomattox ended the civil war
General Lee and General Grant
Appomattox Court House
Officially, on Palm Sunday, April 9th at 3:00pm
Officially, on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865 when General Lee signed a surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia
April 9, 1865 on Palm Sunday Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed a surrender. :)
The Civil War officially ended on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865 when Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed the surrender.
April 9, 1865 on Palm Sunday Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed a surrender. :)
Officially, on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865 when Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed a surrender
The Confederates had abandoned Richmond, and they were trying to head West, but ran out of steam at Appomattox Court House. Tha was where the surrender took place - officially an armistice, not a treaty. But it is taken as the end-point of the Civil War.
...the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant - effectively the end of the Civil War.
The surrender of Fort Sumter
The main causes of surrender during the American Civil War are the same reason for surrender in any other war,... one side overwhelms the other.