BTW, thanks for contacting the gentlemen on the Virginia MB.

Are you talking about the issue of not accepting a formal surrender from the Confederate government or the surrenders of the individual armies and departments.

I'd really like to see a book about the Confederate surrenders, with information leading up to them, for instance communications between the Union generals and Washington anticipating and planning for these surrenders. What would they do if the Confederates chose guerrilla war, rather than surrender? I'd also like to know about the mechanics of the different surrenders. Were the Confederate soldiers congregated in one location.? Did they come into contact with the Union army? Were the Confederates supplied in some way by the Union forces? How and where did they surrender their arms? Which armies had formal surrender or farewell ceremonies?

Except for a few articles about individual surrenders, which primarily center on the communications between the commanders, I really don't know a great deal about how, when and where the Confederate forces capitulated.

You know how are surrender is handled, has a great deal to do with how the relations between the combatants heal, if ever. Clearly, the Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI, in many ways, led to the Second World War.

Jim