apr 9, 1865 - Appomattox Court House
Description:
-Civil War officially ended with the surrender of Confederate General Lee in Virginia-rising class resentment among poor whites in the South led to the collapse of the Confederacy
-in return for their promise not to fight again, Grant allowed Confederate officers to go home -> all secessionist armies and governments dissolved
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Date:
apr 9, 1865
Now
~ 160 years ago