Winning the Battle After Losing the War
Confederate forces won the last battle of the Civil War in May of 1865. In the month after General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox on April 9, rebels still fought to the south and west. Surrenders continued throughout April in North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia. Across the Mississippi, Lt. General Edmund Kirby Smith had still not laid down arms when Union soldiers moved on Brownsville, Texas on May 11th. Confederate fighters routed the Federals, forcing their retreat. The last victory was followed by the final defeat: Kirby's surrender on May 26, 1865.
The last shot of the Civil War was fired at sea on June 22. The CSS Shenandoah was in Arctic waters, attacking Union whaling ships, and didn't know the war was over.
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