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.
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General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the Old Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
What are the causes of when Lee met Grant and agreed to surrender ?
Appomattox.
He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
General Grant's army defeated General Lee's army and Grant accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Grant's treatment of Lee was characterized by such respect and generosity that Lee would not permit a bad word to be spoken about the man who had beaten him.
The surrender of the Confederate General of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee to the commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, ended the US Civil War. The date was April 9, 1865. Lee was the military leader of the Confederacy and as such, his surrender was valid. A few Southern military men wanted to fight a guerrilla war to harass the North but Lee was opposed to this. President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy accepted Lee's action in ending the war.