This U.S. President declared the Civil War formally over.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Ulysses Grant
This U.S. President declared the Civil War formally over.
Andrew Johnson. On August 20, 1866, in a presidential proclamation, Johnson declared that “Peace, Order, Tranquillity, and Civil Authority Now Exists in and Throughout the Whole of the United States of America.”