The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
We're covering the final days of the Civil War exactly 150 years later. This is the eighth installment of the series. The Union breakthrough at Petersburg on April 2, 1865 spelled the end of the ...
On this day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the Civil War on April 9, 1865. The overall Confederate surrender took place ...
The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...
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WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The nation’s 17th president signed a proclamation in 1866 declaring the end of the Civil War, more than a year after the Confederate surrender. President Andrew Johnson said in ...
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