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General Grant’s forces counterattacked a week later on April 1 at Five Forks, forcing Lee to abandon Richmond and Petersburg the following day. General Lee's final campaign began March 25, 1865, with a Confederate attack on Fort Stedman, near Petersburg. The string of events marking the end of the war all began with Lee’s Appomattox campaign. Lee's Last Campaign: Starved for Supplies

Conducting Civil War research in the Summer, Fall, and Winter 1995 issues of Prologue.

Civil War historian James McPherson’s view of how the war changed America.

Not until 16 months after Appomattox, on August 20, 1866, did the President formally declare an end to the war. Surrenders, paroles, and amnesty for many Confederate combatants would take place over the next several months and into 1866 throughout the South and border states.

The Grant-Lee agreement served not only as a signal that the South had lost the war but also as a model for the rest of the surrenders that followed.Īfter Richmond fell and Davis fled, Confederate commanders were on their own to surrender their commands to Union forces. Several other Confederate forces-some large units, some small&madsh had yet to surrender before President Andrew Johnson could declare that the Civil War was officially over. Lee, the Confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. While it was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War, Gen. The surrender at Appomattox took place a week later on April 9. But what happened there in early April 150 years ago certainly marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.Īfter the fall of Richmond, the Confederate capital, on April 2, 1865, officials in the Confederate government, including President Jefferson Davis, fled.

The war, however, did not officially conclude at that tiny village west of Petersburg, Virginia. To many Americans the word Appomattox is synonymous with the end of the Civil War. Lee (National Archives Identifiers 558769)