The Civil War didn't end with Lee's surrender. Fighting continued farther west. The last land battle of the war, fought at Palmito Ranch in South Texas, was a Confederate victory. Incidentally, French troops on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande joined in the battle and fired on the Union troops--the only time a foreign army intervened in the Civil War.
Naval action continued, and in the summer of 1865, the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah sailed into the Bering Sea and captured the entire Yankee whaling fleet. One can argue that the war finally ended on November 22, 1865, when the Shenandoah dropped anchor in England and lowered its flag for the last time.
Interesting. Thanks. Guess one can pick and chose which event was the end of the war. Where was Tweeter when we needed it?🙄