Where and when did the Civil War come to an end?

Answer 1

The Civil War essentially ended on April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. Grant told Union troops to not celebrate in respect to Lee and his troops.

* It should be noted that the question does NOTspecifically ask about the surrender of Confederate Forces at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

That event is when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the forces under his direct command (The Army of Northern Virginia), to General Ulysses S. Grant. In point of fact several military actions continued to be fought elsewhere after the date of Lee's surrender.

Since there was no longer an existing Confederate Government there was no viable governmental authority with which to sign a formal surrender agreement, and the individual commanders of other Confederate forces did not learn of Lee's surrender until some time after the Appomattox Court House event.

*SEE THE BELOW WEBSITE for discussion, and the dates considered to be the "final" battles of the war.

Answer 2

Although it has been taught that the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses Grant on April 9, 1865 ended the American Civil War, there were still active Confederate forces in the field across the country. Certainly Lee capitulating triggered the beginning of the end for the Confederacy, but the war was not over. General Joe Johnston maintained a force of 25-30,000 soldiers in Greensboro, North Carolina until April 26, 1865, when he surrendered his immediate army along with all active Confederate soldiers throughout the southeast (NC, SC, GA, and FL) totaling nearly 90,000 soldiers. This made the surrender at the Bennett Farm in now Durham, North Carolina the largest surrender of the entire war, and perhaps more significant than the surrender at Appomattox. Three more surrenders followed in Alabama, Louisiana, and the Oklahoma territory where General Stand Watie surrendered his regiment made up of American Cherokee Indians. The final surrender of the war came when a Confederate naval vessel, the C.S.S. Shenandoah, lowered her flags to British authorities in England. Thus, the final end of the American Civil War. Hostilities continued throughout the country for another 10 years with a time known as Reconstruction.

Answer 3

There was never a formal peace treaty.

Appomattox cannot even be taken as an armistice, because other Confederate armies had still not surrendered.

The notional ending of the war must have been when the Confederacy was officially wound-up - if that ever happened.

Answer 4

Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Answer 5

the American civil war finished in 1865