Question of the Week: What do you consider to be the end of the Civil War?
What event or date do you consider to be the end of the Civil War? What that specific event or date?
What event or date do you consider to be the end of the Civil War? What that specific event or date?
Appomattox.
November 6, 1865, when the CSS Shenandoah surrendered….
Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. While he only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, as opposed to the entire Confederate Army, Richmond was lost and Lee’s surrender was the beginning of the end.
Appomattox. I realize there was more fighting, with Johnson, the Trans Mississippi and the commerce raiders. But it was al over but the shouting after Lee’s surrender.
In another sense, it hasn’t ended. If part of the war was to maintain white supremacy and a racial hierarchy, that battle continued, legally into the latter half of the 20th century.
The last surrender of armed forces: the Trans Mississippi Dept. on June 2, 1865. By then the Confederate government had collapsed.
With the realization by the entire warring combatants both North and South, that the ANV was the premier combat force propping up rebellion: so with its collapse and complete destruction in effect ended the Confederacy. So Appomattox is the end of the War between the States.
July 7,1865, four Lincoln Assassination Conspirators were executed by hanging at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington DC. Especially when one was a woman, Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the government! The country had finally lost its appetite for war, killing, and revenge!
The end of racism in the United States