• Appomattox Regional Library system serves the city of Hopewell and Prince George and Dinwiddie counties in Virginia. The library system is within Region...
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    state of the art flagship library for the busy Appomattox Regional Library System, the Maude Langhorne Nelson Library. The library has a cyber cafe, extensive...
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    schools. Prince George High School is in the CDP. Appomattox Regional Library is the public library system in the area. "Find a County". National Association...
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    Church Road DeWitt Darvils Ford Sutherland Wilsons Appomattox Regional Library serves as the public library for the area. "Dinwiddie County, Virginia". United...
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  • Perryville (1958), Fredericksburg to Meridian (1963), and Red River to Appomattox (1974). On the strength of his novel Shiloh, Bennett Cerf of Random House...
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    the Upper Appomattox Canal Navigation System, which opened in 1816, to a city mostly rebuilt after a devastating 1815 fire. When its Appomattox River port...
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    Commonwealth as a secondary responsibility. Riverside Regional Jail is located west of 295 and south of the Appomattox River in the county. It serves seven member...
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    Prince Edward County. Farmville developed near the headwaters of the Appomattox River in central Virginia; the waterway was long its main transportation...
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    one-third of the South's tally. ... white Southern Democrats have met their Appomattox: they will account for just 24 of the South's 155 senators and congressmen...
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    destruction of most of Lee's army, which he finally surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House. In 1865, Lee became president of Washington College, now...
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    group sailed up the Appomattox River looking for clear land, and finally settled in an area where Swift Creek runs into the Appomattox River, which they...
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    borders are primarily defined by the James River to the north and the Appomattox River to the south. Its county seat is Chesterfield Court House. Chesterfield...
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    Retrieved April 28, 2021. Richardson, Heather Cox (2007). West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. Yale University Press...
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    On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his...
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    Confederacy surrendered in 1865 after the Union's victory in the Battle of Appomattox Court House. The Reconstruction era followed the war. After the assassination...
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    remainder of the Civil War. Following the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, General Sherman donated two cannons to the...
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    Hill to push back the remaining Union forces from the battlefield. At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment...
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  • Ulysses S. Grant marched past the north end of campus on Lee's retreat to Appomattox just days before the end of the American Civil War. At the south end of...
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    Division 7 | BCI Field Office Appomattox (7) - Virginia State Police". www.vsp.virginia.gov. Retrieved December 1, 2021. Library, Loudoun County Public. "Locations...
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    Representatives of the U.S. Congress from Appomattox County from 1901 to 1921. Another uncle from Appomattox County, Joel West Flood, served as that county's...
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    one-sixth of whom were killed before the Confederates surrendered at Appomattox. Most fought in the great campaigns in the Mississippi Valley and in the...
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    were also present when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Nine generals of the war were born in or near...
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  • Perryville (1958), Fredericksburg to Meridian (1963), and Red River to Appomattox (1974). Foote had no training as a historian. He visited battlefields...
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    telemedicine in the United States: A population based study". The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. 10: 100200. doi:10.1016/j.lana.2022.100200. ISSN 2667-193X...
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    John W. Marston served in the 9th Florida Regiment as a part of the Appomattox Campaign. Many other residents served in other capacities. Otherwise the...
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    Salem Flying Artillery is said to have fired the last Confederate shot at Appomattox Court House prior to Robert E. Lee's surrender. One of the city's four...
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    multidisciplinary, hands-on children's museum. Appomattox Courthouse: The site of the Battle of Appomattox Court House, where the surrender of the Confederate...
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    rebuilt. On April 14, 1865—just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House—Lincoln and his wife attended a performance of Our American...
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    General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Potomac after the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Confederate...
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    and on April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant following the Battle of Appomattox Court House, setting in motion the end of the war. Lincoln lived to see...
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