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Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant. As these two oficers both occupied the post of General-in-Chief of their respective armies, this was taken as the end of hostilities.
It was actually a couple of weeks later that Joe Johnston's Army of Tennessee surrendered to Sherman, and there were small skirmishes West of the Mississippi for a few weeks beyond that.
Appomattox was only an armistice. There was never a peace treaty, since Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
This is to point out that "The Confederate Army" as a whole never surrendered.
Instead the Confederate forces surrendered piecemeal and not at the same time:
Lee surrendered on Apr. 9, 1865.
Johnston surrendered on Apr. 18, 1865.
Richard Taylor's remnant Confederate Forces in Alabama and Mississippi surrendered on May 4, 1865.
Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi's Confederate Forces surrendered on May 26, 1865.
Indeed I am of the opinion that the question should have been better asked, for instance: "Who were the generals who surrendered the different Confederate Armies to Union Forces?"
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RafaAt the end of the Civil War, the Southern General Lee surrendered to General Grant. The North won, regardless of what they say in Georgia.
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What happened at Appotomax in the American Civil War?
The Confederate General Lee surrendered to United States General Grant ending the Civil War.
What generals signed the agreement to end the civil war?
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
In the civil war who did general lee surrender to?
He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
Where is site of general lee surrender civil war?
He surrendered at the Appomattox Court House on April 9,1865.
When day the civil war end in May 1865?
Although the Civil war is commonly thought to have ended in April 1865 when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the last battle of the war was fought over a month later in Texas. For all practical purposes the war ended when Lee surrendered to Grant.
