Identify the date commonly associated with the official surrender of the US Civil War.

Identify the date commonly associated with the official surrender of the US Civil War.

• A. April 10, 1865
• B. April 7, 1865
• C. April 13, 1865
• D. May 2, 1865

Answer: (A)

The moment being tested is when the major Confederate army officially surrendered, signaling the end of the Civil War. The date most widely remembered for this is April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This event is seen as the war’s turning point because it effectively ended the fighting and led to the Confederacy’s collapse, with terms that allowed Confederate soldiers to return home under parole and with a sense of reconciliation. The dates shown in the options don’t match that commonly cited surrender date. Sometimes people hear about April 10 as the day the terms and news circulated or were finalized, but the surrender itself is dated April 9. The other dates correspond to different moments in the closing days of the war, not the surrender at Appomattox.

The moment being tested is when the major Confederate army officially surrendered, signaling the end of the Civil War. The date most widely remembered for this is April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This event is seen as the war’s turning point because it effectively ended the fighting and led to the Confederacy’s collapse, with terms that allowed Confederate soldiers to return home under parole and with a sense of reconciliation.

The dates shown in the options don’t match that commonly cited surrender date. Sometimes people hear about April 10 as the day the terms and news circulated or were finalized, but the surrender itself is dated April 9. The other dates correspond to different moments in the closing days of the war, not the surrender at Appomattox.