<P> This is a timeline of the conclusion of the American Civil War which includes important battles, skirmishes, raids and other events of 1865 . These led to additional Confederate surrenders, key Confederate captures, and disbandments of Confederate military units that occurred after Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865 . </P> <P> The fighting of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War between Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac and Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was reported considerably more often in the newspapers than the battles of the Western Theater . Reporting of the Eastern Theater skirmishes largely dominated the newspapers as the Appomattox Campaign developed . </P>

When did the final surrender of the civil war occur