Grant was firm and determined to fight it out if it took all summer.

The closing battles were fought with desperate courage and firm resistance, but at last the South was forced to succumb.

On the ninth day of April, 1865, General Lee surrendered to General Grant.

The lost cause went down in blood and tears, and on the brows of a ransomed people God poured the chrism of a new era, and they stood a race newly anointed with freedom..