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Events on Sunday 9 April 1865 1
1865Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court HouseEffective end of the American Civil WarConfederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The surrender marked the effective end of four years of civil war, though smaller Confederate forces held out for weeks afterward.