According to the most history books, the United States Civil War ended on April 9,

1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant

at Appomatics Courthouse, Virginia.

This is a truth, but it really isn't THE truth.

At best it could be described as the beginning of the end of the Civil War.

Learn more about when the U.S. Civil War really ended on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Travel Photography Academy. In 2007 I sold my home to travel around the world. I bought an

expensive camera that I didn't know how to use and took a bunch of terrible photos.

Several years, a hundred countries, and tens of thousands of photos later, I'd improved my photography to the point where I was winning national awards, being named Travel Photographer of the Year three times in North America.

I created the Travel Photography Academy, so you don't have to spend

the many years that I did to improve your photography. Even though we can't easily

travel right now, you can still work on improving your photography at home and in your own community.

Just go to travel photography academy.com or click on the link in the show notes to start

improving your photography today. If you remember back to my episode about the

last Germans to surrender in World War II, Wars often have a very definitive start

but do not have a very definitive end.

This was certainly the case in the US Civil War.

Open hostilities began on April 12, 1861 with the bombardment of Fort Sumner in South Carolina.

While there was violence around the issue of slavery for many years,

the formal fighting between the two sides of the war began on that date and at that place.

When General Lee surrendered in 1865, he wasn't the commander-in-chief of all Confederate forces.

He was only the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.

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