There was no formal surrender of the South to the North. General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox, Virginia. General Joseph E. Johnson surrendered the armies east of the Mississippi on April 26, 1865 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Confederate Government dissolved itself on May 2, 1865. The order went out from a Union General in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, for all Confederate flags to be removed and the Emancipation Proclamation to be read from every courthouse in Texas. That day is called Juneteen.
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