Appomattox Court House

1. A village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War .

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"Appomattox Court-house" is a small county town about a mile from the Lynchburg railroad.

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The morning broke clear and bright in the neighborhood of Appomattox Court House, and there was every evidence of spring.

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Sheridan, outstripping them, placed his men across their path at Appomattox Court House.

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He fought it out on that line, and brought up at Appomattox Court House.

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Only twenty-five months had gone since Appomattox Court-House.

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