Appomattox Court House

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.

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

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

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

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

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