The Ongoing Civil War

It was on this day in 1865 that the Civil War came to a formal end. Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, surrendered, and the last Confederate army ceased to exist. The war that cost 620,000 American lives was over.
— The Writer’s Almanac, Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Formally, maybe.
Informally, certainly not!

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