sentences:  The two previous surrenders occurred at Appomattox Court House, Virginia between General Robert E. Lee and US General Ulysses S. Grant; and the second and largest at Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina between US General William T. Sherman and General Joseph E. Johnston.A living history/reenactment of the surrender occurs each year in Citronelle.The historic "Surrender Oak" no longer stands, as it was destroyed by a hurricane in 1902.