Civil War - 1865

The Appomattox Campaign was the final campaign of General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. Union victories at Five Forks, Petersburg, Sailor’s Creek and Appomattox Station trapped Lee’s army and destroyed its remaining supply routes. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, ending the Army of Northern Virginia’s participation in the war.

The Carolinas Campaign was a Union military campaign led by General William T. Sherman from February to April 1865, in North Carolina and South Carolina. Sherman marched north from Savannah with nearly 60,000 soldiers, occupied Columbia and Raleigh, and joined forces with General John Schofield and the Army of Ohio. The campaign ended when General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida at Bennett Place.

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Petersburg Campaign was a nine-month-long Union offensive launched in June 1864, that comprised nineteen major military engagements, plus additional minor skirmishes, that forced General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to abandon the Confederate capital at Richmond in April 1865.