The 8th Kentucky Regiment surrendered on May 4, 1865 at Columbus, Mississippi, nearly a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
On April 9, 1865, Almanzo and Alexander were present at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to Grant.
In April 1865, as head of the Bureau of Military Information and assistant provost marshal, he paroled 28,000 Confederate Army soldiers, among them General Robert E. Lee, after the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.
In 1864, he enlisted as a private in the 7th Maine Battery, and fought at the Siege of Petersburg, and later participated in the campaign ending with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.
He was also at Appomattox Court House when Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865, to General U.S. Grant.
He would later serve with several Virginia cavalry companies before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 along with the remnants of General Robert E. Lee’s army.
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General George Stoneman's raid passed through Danbury on April 9, 1865, the day of the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House, Va.
:April 9 – Robert E. Lee formally surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House.
Sometimes called the "Waterloo of the Confederacy," Five Forks helped set in motion a series of events that led to Robert E. Lee's subsequent surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Recruited in late 1862, it fought from the Battle of Chancellorsville through the war until the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.