Who surrendered?
Meade was Grants sub. Meade failed to realize what Grant was trying to do with Lee, that was to cut Lee off and Grant actually had to go and correct Meade. Meade was not well liked by his subs. He was tempermental and harsh-but was a very good tactician.
Grant never lost a battle. It even left Lee to say that he historically, never found a better general than Grant in the history of the world.
Two charges Grant said he regretted. Vicksburg and the Wilderness.
Lee on the other hand..lost lots of battles.
Lee never won a major battle after Chancellorsville, and the end-run battle plan was Stonewall’s idea — that battle was his last, and was his masterpiece. The closest Lee came to winning a major battle thereafter was Cold Harbor, and that was just a blunder by Grant — regardless, it didn’t lead to a Union retreat.
Meade whipped Lee at Gettysburg — Meade was a classic counterpuncher, and knew his man. After the war he was unfairly vilified by some blankity-blank ‘journalist’, which had an impact on his reputation. He wouldn’t have made the advance that Grant directed, but few would have.