12h 20min, apr 9, 1865 y - Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
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Grant greated Lee with generous terms of surrender and Lee agreed. Lee could have kept fighting but he was reasonable and felt that it was not worth the lives to just lose later.
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12h 20min, apr 9, 1865 y
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~ 159 years ago