Where did general lee surrender to general grant which offially ended the civil war?

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2026-07-22 05:30

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He surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9th 1865. It did not officially end the war. It was only an armistice. And other Confederate units were still in action for a few weeks beyond that date. But this is taken as the effective end of hostilities.

The war never officially ended, because Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation, and there had never been an official declaration of war.

As the Confederacy formally wound-up at its last cabinet meeting on May 10th 1865, that date could be taken as the notional ending of the war.

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