APPOMATTOX

ăpəmătˈəks, town (1990 pop. 1,707), seat of Appomattox co., central Va.; inc. 1925. Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at nearby Appomattox Courthouse on Apr. 9, 1865. After Gen. Philip Sheridan's victory over the Confederates at Five Forks on Apr. 1, Lee abandoned Petersburg and Richmond and retreated westward. Grant pursued, pressing Lee's flank and rear, while Sheridan cut off further retreat at Appomattox Courthouse. Severed from supplies and surrounded by Union forces, Lee was forced to surrender. This marked the virtual end of the war, as the remaining Confederate armies, on hearing of Lee's act, followed suit. The site has been made a national historical park (see National Parks and Monuments, table).

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A Place Called Appomattox
Book by William Marvel; University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Subjects: Appomattox (Va.)--History, Appomattox (Va.)--Social Conditions, Appomattox Campaign, 1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social Aspects
...CHAPTER TWO 1 Land Books, 1850 54, Appomattox County Circuit Court; Seventh Census...May 2, 1850. Upon the creation of Appomattox County, the General Assembly charged...the responsibility of educating poor Appomattox children Acts of the General Assembly...
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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox
Book by William Marvel; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Subjects: Appomattox Campaign, 1865, Lee, Robert E--(Robert Edward)--1807-1870
...Papers, VHS; Mahone, On the Road to Appomattox, 45. Colonel Marshall described Lee...Aide-de-Camp of Lee, 262 and in Appomattox: An Address Delivered Before the Society...Papers, VHS; Mahone, On the Road to Appomattox, 45; E. P. Alexander to James Longstreet...
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The Appomattox Campaign: March 29-April 9, 1865
Book by Chris M. Calkins; Combined Books, 1997
Subjects: Appomattox Campaign, 1865
...South Side Railroad structure over the Appomattox River. Pursued by Confederate cavalry...cross over to the north side of the Appomattox River. General Grant sent his first...Union troops, successfully crossing the Appomattox River at High Bridge, advanced to this...
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The Road to Appomattox
Book by Robert Hendrickson; John Wiley & Sons, 1998
Subjects: Appomattox Campaign, 1865
...toward Farmville on the south bank of the Appomattox. There he would join up with Longstreet...to a Southside Railroad depot called Appomattox Station, just a few miles from the little town of Appomattox Court House, figuring he could pick...
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Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
Book by J. Tracy Power; University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--Army Of Northern Virginia--Military Life, Lee, Robert E--(Robert Edward)--1807-1870, Soldiers--Confederate States Of America--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories
...Calkins, Thirty-Six Hours before Appomattox ; Trudeau, Out of the Storm , 106-16; Davis, To Appomattox , 242-71; and Freeman, Lees Lieutenants...report, 46 1 :1282. See also Calkins, Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House...
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War over a Shrine of Peace: The Appomattox Peace Monument and Retreat from Reconciliation
Journal article by Caroline E. Janney; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011
Subjects: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia--History, National monuments--History, Reconciliation--History
War over a Shrine of Peace: The Appomattox Peace Monument and Retreat from Reconciliation...Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In a fiery...the War Department, Carter described Appomattox as "the place where Constitutional...
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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox
Journal article by Harold S. Wilson; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox (Book)--Book reviews
Lees Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. by Harold S. Wilson Lees Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. By William Marvel. Civil War America...and carefully written volume on the Appomattox campaign, William Marvel attempts to...
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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Journal article by Daniel W. Crofts; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War (Book)--Book reviews
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom...by Daniel W. Crofts Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom...emerged on Israel Hill, overlooking the Appomattox Valley. The bulk of this stout volume...
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
Journal article by David A. Lincove; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. by David A. Lincove West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press...
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
Journal article by Eric T.L. Love; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. by Eric T.L. Love West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press...
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America's Birth at Appomattox
Magazine article by Anne Wortham; World and I, Vol. 14, May 1999
Subjects: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia--History, Lincoln, Abraham--Military policy, United States history, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
Americas Birth at Appomattox. by Anne Wortham Anne Wortham is...farmer Wilmer McLean in the hamlet of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. Civil War...Confederate officers and soldiers at Appomattox between April 9, 1865, when Lee...
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San Francisco Opera: Appomattox
Magazine article by John Bender; Opera Canada, Vol. 48, November 2007
Subjects: Davies, Dennis Russell, Glass, Philip, Hampton, Christopher, Jones, Rhoslyn, Opera, San Francisco California
San Francisco Opera: Appomattox by John Bender San Francisco Opera Appomattox Appomattox portrays the great moment of surrender that closed the American Civil War through the music of Philip Glass, with libretto by the renowned British playwright...
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What Does the Future Hold for the Bear and the Eagle?
Magazine article by Harold E. Rogers Jr.; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 316, January 2008
Subjects: Appomattox (Opera)--Criticism and interpretation, Economic conditions--Social aspects, Great Depression, 1929-1934--Social aspects, Russian foreign relations, United States foreign relations, War--History, Wars--History, World politics--Social aspects
...attended the world premier of the opera "Appomattox"--the story of the end of the American...social institutions of the South. "Appomattox" was conducted at the beautiful Opera...invaded CCCP territory without warning. "Appomattox" is a tale of reconciliation between...
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Cover to Cover: A Guide to Additional Releases
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 299, May 2007
Subjects: Anne Morrow Lindbergh: First Lady of the Air (Book)--Book reviews, Body Surfing (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Book)--Book reviews, Edith Wharton (Book)--Book reviews, Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore De Mayerne (Book)--Book reviews, Full Disclosure (Book)--Book reviews, Impotence: A Cultural History (Book)--Book reviews, In the Driver's Seat (Book)--Book reviews, Notebooks (Book)--Book reviews, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Book)--Book reviews, Room for Doubt (Book)--Book reviews, Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II (Book)--Book reviews, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (Book)--Book reviews, The Mistress's Daughter (Book)--Book reviews, This Human Season (Book)--Book reviews, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War(Book)--Book reviews
...overheated prose, Davis creates a fascinating genealogy that raises chilling questions about the future of terrorism. West from Appomattox by Heather Cox Richardson (Yale) This well-written and perceptive history considers Reconstruction as a national--rather...
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The South in Black and White: What to Read This Month
Magazine article by Benjamin Schwarz; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 294, November 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Israel on the Appomattox (Book)--Book reviews, The Rural Face of White Supremacy (Book)--Book reviews
...evangelicalism) examined aspects of southern interracial history in detail. But Schultzs book and Melvin Patrick Elys Israel on the Appomattox (Knopf) are the first works that attempt to describe with precision the texture of day-to-day interaction across the...
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newspaper articles on: Appomattox  - 347 results

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Country Doctor Aids Both Sides; John Gaines Served from First Manassas to Appomattox
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 4, 2006
...Gaines Served from First Manassas to Appomattox. Byline: Richard E. Clem, SPECIAL...from the Battle of First Manassas to Appomattox. But in the midst of misery, he fell...before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in April 1865. Marriage and death Nearly...
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Connecticut Yankee from China: Joseph Pierce's Tour of Duty Ran from Antietam to Appomattox
Newspaper article by Charles A. Earp; The Washington Times, November 2, 1996
Subjects: Connecticut
...Pierces tour of duty ran from Antietam to Appomattox by Charles A. Earp Despite his American...Creek, Farmville and the surrender at Appomattox Court House. In May 1865, with the...its campaigns from Antietam through Appomattox. Its strength was 1,015 officers...
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Economic Appomattox
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 20, 1996
Economic Appomattox The fight over an increase in the minimum wage is nominally about the...price it out of the competition for jobs. Think of it as an economic Appomattox. Connecticut Rep. Christopher Shays told the New York Times "that...
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Fighting Starts, Ends with One Family; Two Houses Were Central
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 30, 2004
Subjects: McLean, Wilmer
...ended in the parlor of their house in Appomattox, where they had moved to get away from...Manassas and settled in the hamlet of Appomattox Court House. McLean had hopes and expectations...McLean purchased the Raine House, an Appomattox residence built in 1848 by Charles Raine...
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Author Takes Us along on Lee's Retreat
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 2, 2002
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., Lee, Robert E.
...Marvel, who numbers "A Place Called Appomattox" among his many earlier works, sets...surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. He challenges...began the long retreat that ended at Appomattox, he had a force of more than 50,000...
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encyclopedia articles on: Appomattox  - 25 results

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Appomattox
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
APPOMATTOX ap mat ks, town (1990 pop. 1,707), seat of Appomattox co., central Va.; inc. 1925. Confederate general...surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at nearby Appomattox Courthouse on Apr. 9, 1865. After Gen. Philip...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the futile contest, surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse (see under Appomattox ) on Apr. 9, 1865. The surviving Confederate...1947 71); B. Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) and other studies; B. Quarles...
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Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Other historic points of interest include Appomattox Court House National Historical Park; Manassas...remained of his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse (see under Appomattox ) on Apr. 9, 1865. President Jefferson...
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Grant, Ulysses Simpson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...victory at Five Forks made Petersburg and Richmond no longer tenable. Lee retreated, but was cut off at Appomattox Courthouse (see under Appomattox , where he surrendered, receiving generous terms from Grant, on Apr. 9, 1865. Grant went about...
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Lee, Robert Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...through the Petersburg defenses, and Lees forces retreated. One week later Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse (see under Appomattox ). After the war Lee became president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee Univ.). Although...
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