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Q: What advice did General Lee give Confederate troops after his surrender?
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What advice did General Lee give Confederate troops after his surrender during the US Civil War?

we stillgot cotton i guess lol :)


Who was in charge of confederate troops at the surrender at appomattox?

General Robert E. Lee


Where were confederate troops forced to surrender?

Because they loose the war


What union general did general lee surrender to?

Ulysses S Grant was the Union general who accepted Robert E Lee's surrender.


Who was the last confederate commander to surrender thus bringing the civil war to the end?

The last regular army Confederate general to surrender was Lt. Gen. E. Kirby Smith on May 26th 1865. He then fled to Mexico with some 2000 of his troops. Cherokee Chief Stand Waitie who was aligned with the Confederate army did not surrender his force of warriors from various Indian tribes until June 23rd 1865. As Waitie was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, he can be said to be the last Confederate general to surrender; however, Waitie did not command a Confederate army but rather a coalition of native American irregulars aligned with but not a part of the Confederate Armed Forces.


Who was in command of the troops that formally accepted the surrender of the Confederate army?

Lee was defeated by the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Meade. But the Union General-in-Chief, U.S. Grant, was travelling with them in a mobile HQ, and it was Grant who took the surrender. Some said it should have been Meade. General Joshua Chamberlain commanded the 1st Division of 5th Corp of the Army of Potomac which gave the Honour of The Arms formally accepting the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, on Apr.12, 1865.


Who given the honor of commanding the troops that formally accepted the surrender of the confederate army?

General Joshua Chamberlain commanded the 1st Division of 5th Corp of the Army of Potomac which gave the Honour of The Arms formally accepting the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, on Apr.12, 1865.


Who commanded the troops that accepted the surrender of the confederate army?

General Robert E. Lee officially surrendered to future President, General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.


When was the last large Confederate force to surrender to Union forces?

As June of 1865 approached, not all Confederate forces had surrendered. Even though the was was in practicality over, there were "hold outs". Finally on June 2, 1865, General Kirby Smith approves of the surrender agreement of General Buckner. These were Confederates west of the Mississippi River and the last large force of Confederates to surrender.As an aside, 1,000 Confederate troops did not surrender and marched to Mexico and settled there under General Shelby rather to be ruled by the North.


Who was given honor of commanding the troops that formally accepted the surrender of the confederate army?

General Chamberlain was the one who FORMALLY accepted the surrender; however, Lee, in standard history books that don't go very in-depth, actually surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.


Who led the raids that distract confederate troops enabling general grant to land his troops south of Vicksburg?

Ambrose Burnside led the raids that distracted Confederate troops, enabling General Grant to land his troops south of Vicksburg.


Who was Robert E. Lee's child?

He was the general of the confederate troops