Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant
General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Grant surrendered to Robert E. Lee at Appomattox
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...the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant - effectively the end of the Civil War.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. This occurred at the Battle of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) accepted the formal surrender of the Japanese Imperial Forces on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay.