This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Leo Scully tell the story of the final surrender of the Confederate armies.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

One of the pirates pointed a gun at Captain Phillips and demanded that he order the crew to surrender.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

But if the North refused a peaceful separation, then the South would be faced with the choice of surrender or fight.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He said later that he did so because he was finding it difficult to bring up the question of surrender.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

They would not surrender. The war would not end until the Confederate armies were defeated by military force.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

I asked to see you to learn upon what terms you would receive the surrender of my army."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

that by our frame of government, the states which have slavery are to retain it, or surrender it at their own pleasure;

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I sincerely hope so. I think that the surrender of this army will be followed soon by that of all the others.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The surrender of the main army of the Confederacy gives hope of a righteous and speedy peace.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Surrender finally came for General Robert E.Lee and the Confederacy he had served as a great soldier.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly in those moments."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

We would see all other taxes ended before we surrender any part of the protective tariff system."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

He could design battle plans that left the enemy no choice other than surrender and defeat.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The surrender demand was carried to Sumter the next day by a group of Confederate officers.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

She has no compromise to offer but the Constitution, and no concession or surrender to make.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

A Hamas leader said in Damascus that the call for a truce would mean a surrender.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

In the fall, visitors can watch the sugar maple trees surrender their colorful autumn leaves.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

He said the surrender terms could be no better than those given General Lee.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The Confederate general said he would let hunger force the Union Army to surrender.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

When people in Washington learned of Lee's surrender, they hurried to the White House.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

And he promised not to surrender any federal property in the states that seceded.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Anderson said he would surrender, if he and his men could leave with honor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

They surrendered instead. Those who would not immediately surrender faced Sheriff Slaughters guns.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

She has already surrendered so much that she has little left to surrender."

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Now these banks had to surrender the government surplus to the state governments.

VOA: special.2009.01.01