AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
END OF THE CIVIL WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Lee
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Grant
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -While it was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy’s most respected commander, surrendered only his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Detailed explanation-2: -On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union’s Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marking the beginning of the end of the grinding four-year-long American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -On this day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the Civil War on April 9, 1865.
Detailed explanation-4: -It’s one of the most momentous events in American history: Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, which effectively ended the Civil War, although other southern forces would still be surrendering into May.