Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

On May 26, 1865, General Kirby Smith became the last Confederate general to surrender his forces. Shreveport became the last major city to surrender to Union forces at the end of the Civil War.

The proclamation warned the Confederate states to surrender by January 1, 1863, or their slaves would be freed. Some people were critical of the proclamation for only freeing some of the slaves.

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

His name was Ulysses Simpson Grant but in my, and the Prime Minister’s, early days he was called ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant.” In the early American Civil War, when Union generals were having a ...