But with that said that was April 9th, 1865 by this point the Union had essentially won the civil war, although there were still fighting after this, you still had battles going on after this you have to remember, that there was no cellphone at this time - there was no telephone at all at this time there was no way to relate the message that essentially the main army for the South had being defeated and so you still had 175.000 confederacy soldiers that were still fighting on the behalf of the Confederacy, other parts of the South, and it took several weeks for all of them to officially surrender and a little bit more time than that for the end of the war to officially happen. 