3 NY TIMES 1865 newspapers SURRENDER Confederate General Johnston CIVIL WAR ENDS
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For the most part though,news of Lee's defeat led to a wave of Confederate surrenders. The Confederate cabinet dissolved on May 5. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, declared on May 9 that the belligerent rights of the Confederacy were at an end, with the insurrection "virtually" over.