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On Palm Sunday, 9 April 1865, at 3:00pm, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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Why did lee surrender and where did it take place?
General Lee surrendered at Gettysburg, PA because he had lost many men during the battle.
When did the confederate surrender take place?
April 9, 1865
Where did lee's finally surrender take place?
Appomattox Court House, after the Confederates abandoned Petersburg and Richmond.
Where was the formal surrender of the south to the north located?
There was no formal surrender of the South to the North. General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox, Virginia. General Joseph E. Johnson surrendered the armies east of the Mississippi on April 26, 1865 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Confederate Government dissolved itself on May 2, 1865. The order went out from a Union General in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, for all Confederate flags to be removed and the Emancipation Proclamation to be read from every courthouse in Texas. That day is called Juneteen. Take your pick.
Where did the last major battle of the revolutionary war take place?
The last battle, major one too, was at Yorktown, 1781 A combination of American & French troops surrounded the forces of British general Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced the British surrender. Yorktown was a peninsula and the French fleet prevented Cornwallis to escape, as the British fleet from New York was too late for a rescue operation.
