Where did the final surrender of the Confederate army take place?
1 Answer
On April 9, 1865 General Robert E Lee of the Confederate army met General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union army at the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House in Virginia and surrendered the Confederate Army in effect ending the Civil War.
Explanation:
On April 9, 1865 General Robert E Lee of the Confederate army met General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union army at the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House in Virginia and surrendered the Confederate Army in effect ending the Civil War.
The conditions General Lee agreed to from the General Grant was a very simple agreement.
The Army of Northern Virginia would surrender their arms, return home, and agree “not to take up arms against the Government of the United States.”
At Lee’s request, Grant allowed Confederates who owned their own horses to keep them so they could tend their farms and plant spring crops.
A Union officer wrote down the terms. Grant then signed the document on the side table next to his chair and passed it to Lee for his signature.
This document in effect ended the United States Civil War.
