In Florida, owners of commercial establishments (where alcohol is sold) may be fined up to $1,000 if they participate in or permit any contest of dwarf-tossing. The law makes sense, but the fact that the state has to spell it out might make you scratch your head.
On April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. This signaled the start of the end of the American Civil War. Prior to Surrender. In early 1865, the Union Army began marching through the state of Virginia, pushing back the Confederate forces.
The date that Lee surrendered to Grant is perhaps more accurately stated as the beginning of the end of the Confederate Army. So when did the Civil War end? The answer is simple yet it is detailed, but it was the surrender of Lee that initiated a series of Confederate capitulations.