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The last large Confederate military department, the Trans-Mississippi Department, surrendered on May 26, completing the formalities on June 2. The last surrender on land did not come until June 23, when Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie gave up his command. At sea, the last Confederate ship, CSS Shenandoah, did not surrender until ...
The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power. A surrender may be accomplished peacefully or it may be the result of defeat in battle. A sovereign state may surrender following defeat in a war, usually by signing a peace treaty or capitulation agreement.
An instrument of surrender is a surrendering document of a military conflict, as those documents are legal instruments. Some such documents are: World War II. Japanese Instrument of Surrender; German Instrument of Surrender; Armistice of Cassibile; Other conflicts. Argentine surrender in the Falklands War 1982
Date surrender document signed (if applicable) Date surrender document took effect (if applicable) Notes Italy All forces of the Italian Social Republic: 429,000 Maresciallo d'Italia Rodolfo Graziani: April 29 May 1 [citation needed] Netherlands Kampfgruppen "General Seyffardt" of the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland in ...
House Republicans are attempting to end the release of the service records of current and former military members after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several GOP ...
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to forces of the Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of the James and Army of the Shenandoah) under the overall command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, marking the effective ...
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