While the American Civil War officially ended at the Battle of Appomattox, Confederate sensibilities ran deep and it was not until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s that blacks were able to fully assert their equality. Read about the events after the war ended, including General Lee's farewell letter to his troops, the safe passage granted Confederate soldiers so they could return home, the locks of hair kept as mementos by surviving family members, and the economic losses suffered in the South.