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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Appomattox Court House
		Even before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Appomattox Court House (the South Side Railroad, today a part of the Norfolk Southern, was built to the south of town in 1850), and commercial life tended to congregate at the nearby Appomattox station.
		His house was also used on April 10 for the Surrender Commissioners' meeting, and over the next few days as the headquarters of Major General John Gibbon of the U.S. Army.
		The house was purchased by John L. Pascoe and apparently rented to the Ragland family formerly of Richmond.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Appomattox-Court-House (4439 words)

	Attractions \| Tour Appomattox, Virginia
		While at Court House Square, don't miss another Appomattox attraction...the Appomattox County Historical Museum which is housed in the old Appomattox jail building.
		Pamplin, VA Another unique Appomattox attraction is this one of a kind structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places...the original clay kiln from 1860 which once produced a million clay pipes per month.
		A must do in Appomattox attractions is the Turn of the Century Walking Tour, a self guided walking tour of 50 stops, including buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, breathtaking turn of the century homes, and heritage tour markers, many pertaining to Civil War History.
	www.tourappomattox.com /attractions.php (1009 words)

	Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		The end of the war led directly to the adoption of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution – ending slavery, providing citizenship and male suffrage.
		The Mclean home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia was used on April 9th 1865 for the surrender meeting between General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. and Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant, U.S.A. The house was also used on April 10th for the Surrender Commissioners meeting, and as the Headquarters of Major General John Gibbon, U.S.A. More...
		The Battles of Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 8th and 9th, 1865 forced the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the once invincible Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
	www.nps.gov /apco (337 words)

	Map of the Region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va. / U.S. War Department ; Weyss, John E. / 1869
		Map of the Region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va. / U.S. War Department ; Weyss, John E. Map of the Region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va. U.S. War Department ; Weyss, John E. View larger, zoomable image
		Full Title: Map of the Region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va. exhibiting the connection between the Campaign And Battle-Field Maps prepared by Authority of the Hon.
		Publication Note: Stephenson states these are a "detailed series of maps indicating fortifications, roads, railroads, houses, names of residents, fences, drainage, vegetation, and relief by hachures." First edition series on heavy paper with printed color background and light browns printed on the rivers, unbound with title page.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps5663.html (539 words)

	Civil War Traveler \| Virginia \| Central
		Spotsylvania Court House battlefield - The national park preserves and interprets the important parts of this bloody ground fought over May 8-21, including the famous "Bloody Angle." Driving and walking tours throughout the park.
		Zion Methodist Church, near the intersection of Routes 608 and 613 and near the courthouse - This small church was caught in the shifting lines during the battle at Spotsylvania Court House.
		A national cemetery, established in 1866, is close, as is the Garthright House, a landmark on the battlefield.
	www.civilwar-va.com /virginia/va-central/1864tour.html (0 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Appomattox
		Appomattox A village in Virginia, USA, scene of the surrender of the CONFEDERACY Army of Northern Virginia to the Union Army of the Potomac on 9 April 1865.
		It was virtually deserted after the removal of the county seat to the new town of Appomattox in 1892.
		Appomattox County, town can now sell mixed drinks.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Appomattox (730 words)

	Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
		Appomattox Court House lies just east of Lynchburg, Virginia, on Highway 460.
		The reason for the confusion is that the town's name was Appomattox Court House.
		House as part of their names, and some still do, like Amelia Court House.
	www.roadtripamerica.com /places/appomatt.htm (352 words)

	appomattox court house - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Appomattox Court House : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
		APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=appomattox+court+house (98 words)

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		Appomattox Court House remained a sleepy Central Virginia village throughout most of the Civil War, until Robert E. Lee`s starving and despondent Army of Northern Virginia, on the run for its life after evacuating the trenches of Petersburg, found the escape route blocked by units of the Army of Potomac just west of here.
		Appomattox Court House National Historical Park was established in the mid 20th Century on the site of the original county seat, which was essentially deserted.
		In the late 1800s, the McLean House was taken apart piece by piece to be part of an exhibit in Washington.
	www.thehedcount.com /article.aspx?articleid=29 (397 words)

	Appomattox County Public Schools
		Steeped in history and heritage, Appomattox County was the scene of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender that ended the War Between the States.
		Appomattox County was formed in 1845 from parts of Buckingham, Prince Edward, Charlotte and Campbell counties.
		The county was named for the Appomattox River, whose name came from the Indian tribe living near the mouth of the river.
	www.appomattox.k12.va.us /acps/acps_secondarypage_template.aspx?pn=&pid=71&ps= (344 words)

	Surrender At Appomattox
		On the night of April 8, Lee bivouacked north of Appomattox Court House with his men.
		The surrender had been arranged to occur in the village of Appomattox Court House on top of a low foothill of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
		At the peak of the hill sat the county court, with a small town surrounding it.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Surrender_at_Appomattox (1689 words)

	Andrew Clem ~ Appomattox, 2006 photo gallery
		In the captions below, "Appomattox" refers to Appomattox Court House, not the present-day town of Appomattox, which is located three miles to the southwest, along the railroad line.
		On the left in back is the actual Court House building itself, and on the right is the "new" jail that was built in 1870, just after the Civil War.
		The Peers house, on the northeast side of Appomattox, where the final skirmish took place on the morning of April 9, 1865.
	www.andrewclem.com /Photos/Virginia/Appomattox.html (442 words)

	Appomattox Walk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, US Hwy 24, approximately 1.4 miles from the Grocery; (434) 352-8987 x 31
		The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is open daily from 8:30 a.m.
		Water and restrooms are available at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park [restroom is NOT available at Parkway Grocery].
	www.walkvirginia.com /AppomattoxYRE.htm (260 words)

	Appomattox Court House (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Appomattox Court House was the county seat of Appomattox county, and is about 65 miles nearly due west of Petersburg.
		Before the work of unloading the trains could be completed Gen. Ord was so close upon Farmville that Lee ordered the remaining trains to Appomattox Court House, 20 miles farther west, and moved his army toward that point by the roads on the north side of the river.
		During the night of the 7th Lee withdrew from his position in front of the 2nd corps and hurried on toward Appomattox Court House, Humphreys following and Gen. Wright with the 6th corps moving on a parallel road in an effort to cut off the line of retreat.
	www.confederatemilitaryhistory.com /battles/detail.php?id=272 (2037 words)

	Robert E. Lee's Surrender at Appomattox
		I was without a sword, as I usually was when on horseback on the field, and wore a soldier's blouse for a coat, with the shoulder straps of my rank to indicate to the army who I was.
		His answer was "about twenty-five thousand": and I authorized him to send his own commissary and quartermaster to Appomattox Station, two or three miles away, where he could have, out of the trains we had stopped, all the provisions wanted.
		Generals Gibbon, Griffin and Merritt were designated by me to carry into effect the paroling of Lee's troops before they should start for their homes -- General Lee leaving Generals Longstreet, Gordon and Pendleton for them to confer with in order to facilitate this work.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/SurrenderatAppomattox.htm (1965 words)

	Appomattox Court House - MedPort-Lexikon
		Appomattox Court House, im US-Bundesstaat Virginia ist ein National Historical Park, der an die Kapitulation der Südstaaten im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg erinnert.
		Der kleine Ort Appomattox Court House, der nur aus wenigen Farmhäusern, einem Laden und einem Gerichtsgebäude bestand, wurde schon Ende des 19.
		Heute ist Appomattox Court House ein großes Freilichtmuseum.
	www.medport.de /lexikon/index.php/Appomattox_Court_House (439 words)

	Appomattox Court House \| Appomattox Court House, United States Travel Blog (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the drive from Richmond, Kentucky to Williamsburg, Virginia (January 15) we stopped in the afternoon at Appomattox Court House, the town where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
		It sounds like the surrender took place in the court house, however, the name of the town was Appmattox Court House.
		The inclusion of 'court house' in a Virginian town name was common for towns where the county seat of government took place.
	www.travelpod.com /cgi-bin/guest.pl?tweb_UID=heyco&tweb_tripID=heycotravel&tweb_entryID=1137329880&tweb_PID=babylon (316 words)

	Appomattox Court House
		Originally the village of Appomattox Court House was known at Clover Hill.
		In 1845 when the county of Appomattox was formed Clover Hill was chosen as the county seat and the town was renamed Appomattox Court House.
		Row 3--#1 Parlor, main floor, in McLean house, Grant's table, #2 Lee's table, vases on mantle are original, #3 main bedroom,main floor, #4 formal dining area, ground floor, #5 second kitchen for keeping food warm, ground floor, #6 main kitchen in back of house.
	www.baseballroadtrip.net /travel2003/1/Appomattox/Appomattox.html (346 words)

	Appomattox Courthouse Robert E Lee Surrenders to Ulysses S Grant
		In the meantime, the majority of Lee's forces were setting up a temporary camp one mile north of Appomattox Court House -- the small town lying between the Confederates and the station.
		The expectation was validated when, at 2:00 A.M. on the morning of April 9th, Lee ordered General Gordon's II Corps to move into line of battle west of Appomattox Court House.
		Negotiations began between General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses S Grant in the McLean House near Appomattox Court House, and the terms of surrender were agreed upon.
	americancivilwar.com /appo.html (1682 words)

	Appomattox
		While riding along the wagon road that runs from Farmville to Appomattox Court House, at a point eight or nine miles east of the latter place, Lieutenant Charles E. Pease of Meade's staff overtook him with a dispatch.
		About 1 O'clock the little village of Appomattox Court House, with its half-dozen houses, came in sight, and soon we were entering its single street.
		He said General Lee and Colonel Babcock had gone into this house a short time before, and he was ordered to post himself in the street and keep a lookout for General Grant, so as to let him know where General Lee was.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/HMore/Appomattox.htm (6446 words)

	Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		It is an outstanding situation that the past moments and events are continuously reminded so that we keep for ever in our minds the mistakes and the achievements that humanity have made it.
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	www.wonderful-people.com /Museums_and_galleries/Memorials/history/USA19th/index3/Naineth10030.htm (268 words)

	Rantings of a Civil War Historian » Bennett Place vs. Appomattox Court House
		The entire village of Appomattox Court House was purchased by the War Department and was turned into a shrine.
		When my wife was growing up, she lived for a time in the house Johnston used as headquarters during negotiations, making it known to this day as The Johnston House.
		My mother-in-law toured the house and came out as indignant as only an affronted Southern woman could be, her fists clenched, her hair on fire, muttering, “That family lost seven sons in the war and they must be spinning in their graves to have that man glaring down on their parlor.”
	civilwarcavalry.com /?p=76 (1121 words)

	Appomattox Court House National Historic Park (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was a town in Virginia which was the county seat of Appomattox County, a small rural settlement.
		Generals Grant and Lee met in the McLean house, chatted a few minutes, then signed the surrender papers, effectively ending the War of the Rebellion (also called the Civil War and the War of Southern Independence), in 1865.
		The park is very well maintained, and features displays of life in rural Virginia in mid-nineteenth century.
	www.dlmark.net /NPappomattox.htm (155 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Appomattox Court House
		The Appomattox Campaign became a race to determine if the core of the South's greatest army, and in actuality the Confederacy itself, would survive.
		Approaching Appomattox Court House, on the road to Lynchburg, Lee's exhausted command found this last western escape route blocked by Union cavalry (MG Sheridan) and infantry (MG Edward O.C. Ord) at Appomattox Station (8-9 April) and at Appomattox Court House (9 April).
		On Palm Sunday, 9 April, after one last skirmish near Appomattox Station, GEN Robert E. Lee formally surrendered the out-numbered and out-maneuvered Army of Northern Virginia to LTG Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House.
	www.batteryb.com /battles/appomattox.html (867 words)

	Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
		Still suffering his headache, General Grant approached the crossroads of Appomattox Court House where he was over taken by a messenger carrying Lee's reply.
		General: I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army.
		He sold his house and moved to Appomattox to escape the combat.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /appomatx.htm (1899 words)

	The Price of Freedom: Appomattox Furniture
		General Lee's cane chair was acquired by General E.W. Whitaker and remained in his possession until 3 November 1871 when he presented it to the Nathaniel Lyon Post, Grand Army of the Republic, to be awarded to the person selling the most tickets for a benefit performance.
		The surrender document of 9 April 1865 read, "We, the undersigned Prisoners of War, belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, having been this day surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., Commanding said Army to Lieut.
		Done at Appomattox Court House, Va. this 9th day of April, 1865.
	americanhistory.si.edu /militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=34 (265 words)

	Battle Summary: Appomattox Court House, VA
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		Description:Early on April 9, the remnants of John Broun Gordon’s corps and Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry formed line of battle at Appomattox Court House.
		This was the final engagement of the war in Virginia.
	www.nps.gov /history/hps/abpp/battles/va097.htm (141 words)

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