Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army to Gen. U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA. While this event is commonly thought to have ended the U.S. Civil War, it did not, because other hostile armies remained in the field, including two large ones about 120 miles away. On April 18 Gen. Joseph Johnston surrendered his Confederate army to Gen. William T. Sherman at Benton Place, NC. Although other hostile forces remained, this effectively ended the war. In between these two surrenders, on April 14, President Lincoln was assassinated in Washington. See also http://billyjustice.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/lilacs/
The surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9th 1865. This was the biggest of the Confederate armies in the field, and its surrender is taken as the notional end of the war, although some smaller units were still in action for a few more weeks. There was never a peace treaty, because there had never been a declaration of war in the first place - Lincoln refused to recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
The surrender of General Robert E. Lee at the famed Court House. the war ended in a Legal house- a wise denouement. on the other hand the armistice for World War I was signed- in a dining car of the French Railways ( time out for lunch, Kaiser Bill!)
It is Harper´s Ferry. John Brown was a famous abolitionist of the American Civil War. He decided to attack the federal arsenal of Harper´s Ferry with a group of 18 other men. This ended with a battle between his men and Robert E Lee´s men, and he was wounded and forced to surrender. This event was one of the causes of the Civil War.
April 14, 1865 was the 4th anniversary of the surrender of Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC. Union troops had moved into the city and there were photographers to record the event as the US flag was again raised over the fort where the Civil War had begun.
Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This event is considered the effective end of the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant marked a significant moment in American history.
Robert E Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox on 9 April 1865. This event was not the actual end of the war but, since the Army of Northern Virginia was the last effective Confederate force, the surrender of smaller Confederate forces and garrisons was inevitable after Lee's surrender.
Siege of Vicksburg.
The first transcontinental railroad was completed.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
Siege of Vicksburg.