• Look up Appomattox in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Appomattox, shorthand for the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil...
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    The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last, and ultimately one of...
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    The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is the preserved 19th-century village named Appomattox Court House in Appomattox County, Virginia....
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    Appomattox is a town in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,733 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Appomattox County...
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    The Appomattox Courthouse is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892. It is located in the middle of the state about three miles...
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    The Appomattox River is a tributary of the James River, approximately 157 miles (253 km) long, in central and eastern Virginia, named for the Appomattocs...
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  • Appomattox Court House may refer to: The village of Appomattox Court House, now the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, in central Virginia...
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    The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate...
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    Appomattox Manor is a former plantation house in Hopewell, Virginia, United States. It is best known as the Union headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg...
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    Appomattox County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is part of the...
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    SS Appomattox was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter that ran aground on Lake Michigan, off Atwater Beach off the coast of Shorewood, Wisconsin...
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  • A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is a non-fiction history book written by Bruce Catton. It recounts the American Civil War's final year, describing the...
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    Appomattox, in Appomattox, Virginia, adjacent to the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, the American Civil War Museum – Appomattox tells...
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    Appomattox Station was located in the town of Appomattox, Virginia (at the time, known as, West Appomattox) and was the site of the Battle of Appomattox...
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  • The order of battle for the Appomattox campaign includes: Appomattox campaign order of battle: Union Appomattox campaign order of battle: Confederate...
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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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    Wilmer McLean (category People from Appomattox, Virginia)
    in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. After the battle, he moved to Appomattox, Virginia, to escape the war, thinking that it would be safe. Instead...
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    Appomattox River Bridge, also known as Route 24 Bridge, is a historic road bridge located near Appomattox, Appomattox County, Virginia, in the Appomattox...
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  • in Virginia shooting, suspect surrenders The 2010 Appomattox shootings was a mass murder in Appomattox, Virginia, United States, that occurred on January...
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    Appomattox is an opera in English based on the surrender ending the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher...
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  • 3″W / 37.353472°N 78.827306°W / 37.353472; -78.827306 The Battle of Appomattox Station was fought between a Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of...
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    The Tri-Cities of Virginia (also known as the Tri-City area or the Appomattox Basin) is an area in the Greater Richmond Region which includes the three...
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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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    1″N 77°2′49.9″W / 38.803917°N 77.047194°W / 38.803917; -77.047194 Appomattox is a bronze statue commemorating soldiers from Alexandria, Virginia, who...
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    high-casualty Overland Campaign which ended with the capture of Lee's army at Appomattox, where he formally surrendered to Grant. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson...
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    The McLean House near Appomattox, Virginia is within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. The house was owned by Wilmer McLean and his...
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    The Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts and Technology (locally and colloquially sometimes known as ARGS, Appomattox, or the Governor's...
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    massacre as a heroic battle to stifle the resurgent Democrats. In West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (2007), Richardson...
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  • War, the 1865 Appomattox campaign, which lasted from March 29 to April 9 and resulted in Confederate surrender on April 9 at the Appomattox Court House...
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  • 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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