The city of Mobile, Alabama, surrendered to Union forces in mid-April after Union victories at two forts protecting the city. This, along with the news of Johnston's surrender negotiations with Sherman, led Taylor to seek a meeting with his Union counterpart, Maj. Edward R. The two generals met several miles north of Mobile on May 2. After agreeing to a hour truce, the generals enjoyed an al fresco luncheon of food, drink, and lively music. Canby offered Taylor the same terms agreed upon between Lee and Grant.
Taylor accepted the terms and surrendered his command on May 4 at Citronelle, Alabama. His capture was soon followed by the surrenders of smaller Confederate forces in Florida, Georgia, and northern Arkansas.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, who fell under the geographic command of Richard Taylor, surrendered his cavalry corps several days after his commander.
In his farewell address to his men at Gainesville, Alabama, on May 9, Forrest stated: "I do not think it proper or necessary at this time to refer to causes which have reduced us to this extremity; nor is it now a matter of material consequence to us how such results were brought about.
That we are beaten is a self-evident fact, and any further resistance on our part would justly be regarded as the very height of folly and rashness. He ended his address by advising his men to "Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.
Several weeks later, the War Department issued a special order calling for a grand review of Union armies to be held in Washington to celebrate recent Union victories.
On May 23, Maj. Sherman's Army of Georgia and Army of the Tennessee. Despite this 19th-century equivalent of a victory lap, the war still continued in Texas and Indian Territory.
From January until the end of the war, Confederate Lt. Union control of the Mississippi would keep his army west of the river for the remainder of the war. In the spring of , Confederate forces in his department defeated Union Gen. Smith later sent Maj. Sterling Price on a large cavalry raid into Missouri, which proved a huge failure after Price's men were repulsed back into Arkansas.
Two days after President Johnson declared the war "virtually at an end," Union Col. Theodore Barrett attacked a smaller Confederate force, half his size, commanded by Col. John S. Ford at Palmito Ranch in Texas, May 12, The overconfident Barrett was soundly defeated in what became the last engagement of the American Civil War. Less than two weeks later, Smith, succumbing to the inevitable, surrendered his command on May Following his surrender, the former West Point graduate and U.
Army officer fled to Mexico and then Cuba to avoid prosecution for treason. After learning of President Johnson's May 29 proclamation concerning amnesty and pardon, Smith returned to Virginia in November to take the amnesty oath. Stand Watie National Archives Identifier At the outset of the Civil War, members of the Cherokee Nation tried to stay neutral.
Within months, however, the Cherokee split between those who supported the Union and those who supported the Confederacy. Watie was eventually promoted to brigadier general in the spring of and later commanded the First Indian Brigade. Watie still maintained a fighting force nearly a month after Smith surrendered the Trans-Mississippi Department. Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender his command. While Confederate land forces surrendered throughout the late spring and summer of , the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah continued to disrupt Union shipping.
The ship, originally the Sea King , involved in the Bombay trade, was purchased in England in the fall of by a Confederate agent. Precautions were taken to disguise ownership, and the ship sailed to Madeira, off the coast of Portugal, manned by an English crew.
There, the Englishmen were replaced by a Confederate crew led by James I. The vessel was soon transformed into a war ship with the addition of armament and naval supplies, and her name was changed to CSS Shenandoah. After being outfitted, the newly christened raider sailed southward around the Cape of Good Hope, into the Indian Ocean, and into the South Pacific.
The vessel was in Micronesia at the time of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Wadell was under orders to destroy the whaling fleets of New England, and the Shenandoah now focused on Yankee whalers. Because the ship's crew were still unaware that the war had ended, the Shenandoah went to work disrupting Union vessels in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. By August of , the Shenandoah had captured or destroyed 38 ships, including whalers and merchant vessels. Waddell set sail for England after learning from a British ship that the war was over.
The last Confederate surrender occurred on November 6, , when the Shenandoah arrived in Liverpool. The only Confederate vessel to circumnavigate the globe was surrendered by letter to the British prime minister, Lord John Russell.
She was soon turned over to the Americans, who hired a merchant captain to sail her to New York. After a couple days at sea, a winter storm forced the captain to limp back to Liverpool with badly damaged sails. Eventually the vessel was sold to the sultan of Zanzibar and renamed El Majidi. President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation on August 20, , formally announcing the end of the Civil War page 1 shown. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender.
The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o'clock in the afternoon. Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries.
Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. The narrative liberally peppered with dialogue taken from actual diaries and letters, readers feel Robert E. Harris think of my hanging on to you so?
Jay Winik not only writes accurate history but also a rollicking good story. Read it. Toggle navigation. Browse our magazines Submit your novel for review. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries.
Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property—most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. The Rebels are our countrymen again. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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