Yes, two of them surrendered, but if we are to believe Charles Francis Adams we cannot say that Lee and his forces were actually vanquished, for as the Massachusetts soldier-author put it: 

“Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia never sustained defeat.  Finally succumbing to exhaustion, to the end they were not overthrown in fight.”

THE HEART OF THE SOUTH

CHAPTER XXVI

RALEIGH AND JOSEPHUS DANIELS

    Jedge Crutchfield give de No’th Ca’lina nigger frown;
    De mahkets says ouh tehapin am secon’-rate,
    An’ Mistuh Daniels, he call Raleigh his hum town. 
    —­I wondah what kin be de mattuh wid ouh State?

Just as it is the fashion in the Middle West to speak jestingly of Kansas, it is the fashion in the South to treat lightly the State of North Carolina.  And just as my companion and I, long ago, on another voyage of discovery, were eager to get into Kansas and find out what that fabulous Commonwealth was really like, so we became anxious, as we heard the gossip about the “Old North State,” to enter it and form our own conclusions.  The great drawback to an attempt to see North Carolina, however, lies in the fact that North Carolina is, so to speak, spread very thin.  It has no great solid central city occupying a place in its thoughts and its affairs corresponding to that occupied by Richmond, in its relation to Virginia.  Like Mississippi, it is a State of small towns and small cities.  Its metropolis, Charlotte, had, by the 1910 census, less than 35,000 inhabitants; its seaport, Wilmington, a little more than 25,000; its capital, Raleigh, less than 20,000; its beautiful mountain resort, Asheville, fourth city in the State, less than 19,000.

I hasten to add that the next census will undoubtedly show considerable growth in all these cities.  In Raleigh I found every one insistent on this point.  The town is growing; it is a going place; a great deal of new building is in progress; and when you ask about the population, progressive citizens are prepared to do much better by their city than the census takers did, some years ago.  They talk thirty thousand, instead of twenty, and they are ready with astonishing statistics about the number of students in the schools and colleges as compared with the total population of the city—­statistics showing that though Raleigh is not large she is progressive.  Which is quite true.

I recollect that Judge Francis D. Winston, former Lieutenant Governor of the State, United States District Attorney, and the most engaging raconteur in the Carolinas, contributed a story to a discussion of Raleigh’s population, which occurred, one evening, at a dinner at the Country Club.

“A promoter,” he said, “was once trying to borrow money on a boom town.  He went to a banker and showed him a map, not of what the town was, but of what he claimed it was going to be.  ‘Here,’ he said, ’is where the town hall will stand.  In this lot will be the opera house.  Over here we are going to have a beautiful park.  And on this corner we are going to erect a tall granite office building.’