Eight Confederate Generals were captured during the battle, thus ending the fighting

Many of the Confederate commanding officers also surrendered as the Confederate defense started to break down under the weight of the Federal attacks on April 6. Nearly one-fifth of the Confederate army's last retreating soldiers were captured or lost their lives at Sailor's Creek. On April 6, the war was declared over by a total of eight Confederate generals, including some of its most well-known leaders. That day saw the capture of Richard S. Ewell, Joseph B. Kershaw, Montgomery Corse, Eppa Hunton, Dudley M. DuBose, James P. Smith, and Seth Barton. But Gen. George Washington Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee's eldest son, may have been the most famous capture that day.

During the defense of Richmond, Colonel Stapleton Crutchfield was killed while in charge of a detachment of artillery soldiers. The Confederates' disarray following their losses at Five Forks, Sutherland's Station, and the Breakthrough, according to General Humphreys, "doubtless scattered them to such an extent that many being without rations did not rejoin their commands." This incident brought the fighting to an end.