• Appomattox Regional Library system serves the city of Hopewell and Prince George and Dinwiddie counties in Virginia. The library system is within Region...
    3 KB (260 words) - 19:10, 5 October 2020
  • Thumbnail for Hopewell, Virginia
    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...
    42 KB (3,807 words) - 05:19, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dinwiddie County, Virginia
    Church Road DeWitt Darvils Ford Sutherland Wilsons Appomattox Regional Library serves as the public library for the area. "Dinwiddie County, Virginia". United...
    17 KB (1,265 words) - 23:40, 3 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prince George, Virginia
    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...
    5 KB (300 words) - 00:27, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petersburg, Virginia
    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...
    79 KB (8,351 words) - 13:48, 4 December 2024
  • Perryville (1958), Fredericksburg to Meridian (1963), and Red River to Appomattox (1974). On the strength of his novel Shiloh, Bennett Cerf of Random House...
    25 KB (2,932 words) - 07:01, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Farmville, Virginia
    Prince Edward County. Farmville developed near the headwaters of the Appomattox River in central Virginia; the waterway was long its main transportation...
    45 KB (4,363 words) - 20:39, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesterfield County, Virginia
    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...
    68 KB (6,943 words) - 04:14, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prince George County, Virginia
    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...
    28 KB (2,571 words) - 20:00, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert E. Lee
    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...
    161 KB (18,093 words) - 20:00, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Democratic Party (United States)
    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...
    302 KB (23,951 words) - 15:08, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colonial Heights, Virginia
    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...
    32 KB (3,259 words) - 20:26, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louisiana State University
    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...
    89 KB (8,579 words) - 07:50, 23 December 2024
  • 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...
    43 KB (4,059 words) - 21:40, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States
    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...
    331 KB (29,535 words) - 02:33, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Huntsville, Alabama
    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...
    152 KB (13,890 words) - 20:35, 7 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Carolina
    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...
    231 KB (20,245 words) - 23:22, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abraham Lincoln
    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...
    205 KB (22,878 words) - 01:26, 21 December 2024
  • Perryville (1958), Fredericksburg to Meridian (1963), and Red River to Appomattox (1974). Foote had no training as a historian. He visited battlefields...
    47 KB (5,648 words) - 01:37, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ford's Theatre
    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...
    18 KB (1,700 words) - 00:38, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Civil War
    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...
    213 KB (23,247 words) - 02:38, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinellas County, Florida
    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...
    100 KB (9,712 words) - 02:35, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry F. Byrd
    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...
    42 KB (4,522 words) - 03:29, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lynchburg, Virginia
    multidisciplinary, hands-on children's museum. Appomattox Courthouse: The site of the Battle of Appomattox Court House, where the surrender of the Confederate...
    105 KB (9,951 words) - 22:42, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mobile, Alabama
    Canby offered Taylor the same terms agreed upon between Lee and Grant at Appomattox. Taylor accepted the terms and surrendered his command on May 4 at Citronelle...
    179 KB (16,391 words) - 15:20, 21 December 2024
  • the campus on April 4, 1865, only five days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Despite a call to arms and defense by the student cadet corps...
    104 KB (8,949 words) - 16:05, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Powhatan County, Virginia
    Richmond Region. The James River forms the county's northern border, and the Appomattox River is on the south side. The county is named for the paramount chief...
    27 KB (2,667 words) - 22:41, 3 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danbury, North Carolina
    Danbury on April 9, 1865, the day of the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House, Va. Other historical features in the town include the Wilson...
    10 KB (870 words) - 00:06, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1872 United States presidential election
    Retrieved April 28, 2021. Richardson, Heather Cox (2007). West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. Yale University Press...
    60 KB (3,702 words) - 18:18, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salem, Virginia
    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...
    19 KB (1,736 words) - 18:33, 3 December 2024