History of South America

Did the southern states surrender in civil war?

The Southern states did surrender in the Civil War. The war, fought between 1861 and 1865, mainly involved the Union ("the North"), composed of twenty-two loyal states and five border states, and the Confederacy ("the South"), composed of eleven states that had declared secession from the United States.

After four years of fierce fighting, the Union Army, led by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, emerged victorious. Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, surrendered to Union forces.

The surrender of the Confederate Army marked the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Reconstruction era, during which the United States grappled with the aftermath of the war, issues related to slavery and its abolition, and the challenges of reuniting the country.