Conclusion of the war

This is a timeline of the conclusion of the American Civil War:

1 .Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate) ~April 9

2. Surrender of Gen. St. John Richardson Liddell's troops (Confederate) ~April 9

3. Disbanding of Mosby's Raiders (Confederate) ~April 21

4. Surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and his various armies (Confederate) ~April 26

5. Surrender of the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana regiments (Confederate) ~May 4

6. Surrender of the Confederate District of the Gulf (Confederate) ~May 5

7. Capture of President Davis (Confederate) ~May 10

8. Surrender of the Confederate Department of Florida and South Georgia (Confederate) ~May 10

9. Surrender of Thompson's Brigade (Confederate) ~May 11

10. Surrender of Confederate forces of North Georgia (Confederate) ~May 12

11. Disbandment after the Battle at Palmito Ranch (Confederate) ~May 13
11.1 Surrender of Cherokee chief Stand Watie

12. Surrender of Kirby Smith (Confederate) ~May 26

13. Surrender of CSS Shenandoah (Confederate) ~November 6

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There are lots of events which happened and eventually lead to the conclusion of the war. There were two major stage in the peace-making and conclusion that ended the war. The surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and his armies to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman on April 26, 1865, at Bennett Place and Lee's surrender occurred at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate) ~April 9
Gen. Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, while Maj. Gen. John Brown Gordon its Second Corps.

Early in the morning of April 9th, Gordon attacked, aiming to break through Federal lines at the Battle of Appomattox Court House, but failed, and the Confederate army was then surrounded.

At 8:30 A.M. that morning, Lee requested a meeting with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to discuss surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia. Shortly after twelve o'clock, Grant's reply reached Lee, and in it Grant said he would accept the surrender of the Confederate army under certain conditions.

Lee then rode into the little hamlet of Clover Hill, where the Appomattox county court house stood, and waited for Grant's arrival to surrender his army.

Surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and his various armies (Confederate) ~April 26
The second and last major stage in the peace making process concluding the American Civil War was the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and his armies to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman on April 26, 1865, at Bennett Place. Johnston's Army of Tennessee was among nearly one hundred thousand Confederate soldiers that were surrendered from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The conditions of surrender were in a document called "Terms of a Military Convention" signed by Sherman, Johnston, and Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Raleigh, North Carolina.

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