where did lee surrender to grant to end the civil war?
Battle of Appomattox Court House
contradiction
 The government in Washington , D.C. , refused to approve Sherman 's terms and the Secretary of War , Edwin M. Stanton , denounced Sherman publicly , precipitating a long @-@ lasting feud between the two men . Confusion over this issue lasted until April 26 , 1865 , when Johnston , ignoring instructions from President Davis , agreed to purely military terms and formally surrendered his army and all the Confederate forces in the Carolinas , Georgia , and Florida , in what was the largest single capitulation of the war . Sherman proceeded with 60 @,@ 000 of his troops to Washington , D.C. , where they marched in the Grand Review of the Armies , on May 24 , 1865 , and were then disbanded . Having become the second most important general in the Union army , he thus had come full circle to the city where he started his war @-@ time service as colonel of a non @-@ existent infantry regiment . 

entailment
 The next major stage in the peace making process concluding the American Civil War was the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston and his armies to Major General William T. Sherman on April 26 , 1865 , at Bennett Place . Johnston 's Army of Tennessee was among nearly one hundred thousand Confederate soldiers that were surrendered from North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , and Florida . The conditions of surrender were in a document called " Terms of a Military Convention " signed by Sherman , Johnston , and Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Raleigh , North Carolina . 

neutral
 Surrender was formalized by an old oak tree , " made historical by the event . " In his Personal Memoirs , Grant described the fate of this luckless tree : 

contradiction
 After Lee 's surrender , a public meeting was held in Shreveport , Louisiana , at which many speakers supported continuation of the war . Plans were developed for the Davis government to flee to Havana , Cuba . There , the leaders would regroup and head to the Confederate @-@ controlled Trans @-@ Mississippi area by way of the Rio Grande . None of these plans was put into practice . 

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 The Confederate surrender on July 4 , 1863 , following the siege at Vicksburg , is sometimes considered , when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee 's defeat at Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade and retreat beginning the same day , the turning point of the war . It cut off the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , and Texas from the rest of the Confederacy , as well as communication with Confederate forces in the Trans @-@ Mississippi Department for the remainder of the war . 
