Read the paragraph, which may contain errors or false beliefs about the civil war: the civil war was a long, hard struggle in a divided nation. the war began with shots at fort sumter, south carolina, on april 12, 1861. slavery, the main cause of the war, was ended in january 1861, when president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. by july 1863, the confederacy reached its apex at gettysburg, pennsylvania. two years later, confederate general robert e. lee surrendered to general ulysses grant at appomattox courthouse, virginia, in april. the four-year struggle cost more than 375,000 lives. which of the following statements corrects a false belief about the civil war and would make the information in the passage more accurate? a. by 1865, there were more than three million dead soldiers on both confederate and union sides as a result of the civil war . b. confederate general robert e. lee surrendered to general william tecumseh sherman at savannah, georgia, in 1865. c. slavery was one of several issues, including states' rights, power in the senate, and politics, that led to the war. d. the farthest north that the confederate army was able to advance was antietam creek, near sharpsburg, virginia.

B. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Savannah, Georgia, in 1865.

Explanation:

The Confederate army, diminished by casualties and desertions, was much smaller than Grant's. Union forces defeated the decisive battle of Five Forks on April 1, forcing Lee to evacuate Petersburg and Richmond. The Confederate capital fell into the hands of the XXV Corps of the Union, composed almost exclusively by black soldiers, on April 3. The remaining Confederate troops fled to the west and, after a defeat at Sayler's Creek, Lee realized that it was tactically and logistically impossible to continue the fight against the United States.

Lee surrendered his Virginia army on April 9, 1865, at the Appomattox Court House. In a rare gesture that showed Grant's respect for Lee, and in anticipation of the return of the Confederate states to the Union, Lee was allowed to keep possession of his officer's saber and his horse, Traveler. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot and killed in the head by a southern supporter. Andrew Johnson became president. Twelve days later, on April 26, Johnston surrendered his troops to Sherman in Durham (North Carolina). On June 23 Stand Watie signed a ceasefire treaty with representatives of the Union, becoming the last Confederate general to be defeated. The last naval unit of the confederation to surrender was the CSS Shenandoah, on November 4, 1865, in Liverpool, England.

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