General-in-Chief of al the Union armies was U.S. Grant. Commander of the Army of the Potomac, which forced Lee's surrender (effectively ending the war), was George Meade.
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War.
The 1861 battles proved that both sides were unprepared for war, and that the war would last much longer than either side calculated or desired. The Northern army was ill-trained and poorly led. The South lacked the industrial base needed to supply an army ans prosecute a war.
Surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant - effectively ending the civil war.
The Allies agreed that international courts would prosecute Nazis for war crimes.
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It was against the Army's orders, but Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton chose not to prosecute Sergeant Thomas "Boston" Corbett.
It was where Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S.Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.
The Nuremberg Trials were held after World War II to prosecute major war criminals from Nazi Germany. The trials aimed to bring justice to those responsible for horrific acts of aggression and genocide during the war.
General Lee did not "surrender the Civil War". He surrendered his army, the Army of Northern Virginia, when it was clear that he could no longer effectively fight against the Army of the Potomac commanded by Ulysses Grant.
General-in-Chief of al the Union armies was U.S. Grant. Commander of the Army of the Potomac, which forced Lee's surrender (effectively ending the war), was George Meade.
It effectively destroyed a major Confederate army and liberated Tennessee.
No, it was Army of Northern Virginia that he commanded for most of the war. The Army of the Potomac was the biggest Union army, and those two armies opposed each other in the Overland Campaign, ending with Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, effectively ending the war.
The 1861 battles proved that both sides were unprepared for war, and that the war would last much longer than either side calculated or desired. The Northern army was ill-trained and poorly led. The South lacked the industrial base needed to supply an army ans prosecute a war.
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War.
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War.
It was the scene of the last battle in Virginia and the surrender of the main Confederate army on April 9th 1865 - effectively the end of the war.