Appomattox

(proper noun)

A town in Virginia that was the site of Confederate General Lee's surrender to Union General Grant on April 9, 1865, essentially ending the American Civil War.

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Examples of Appomattox in the following topics:

  • Lee's Surrender at Appomattox

    • Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, ending the fighting of the eastern theater and effectively ending the American Civil War.
    • Lee's Army of Northern Virginia ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
    • Lee, rode into the little hamlet of Appomattox where the Appomattox county courthouse stood and waited for Grant's arrival to surrender his army.
    • Other Confederate generals surrendered in the following days and weeks as the news from Appomattox reached them.
    • Discuss the contributing factors to Lee's surrender at Appomattox and the end of the Civil War

  • The Confederacy's Defeat

    • Lee's army fought a series of battles in the Appomattox Campaign against Grant that ultimately stretched thin his lines of defense.
    • Grant then took advantage of the situation and launched attacks on this thirty mile and poorly defended front, ultimately leading to the surrender of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.
    • Other Confederate generals surrendered in the following days and weeks as the news from Appomattox reached them.
    • Appomattox Court House, Va.

  • Reform and the Election of 1872

    • Because of political infighting between Liberal Republicans and Democrats, the physically ailing Greeley was no match for Grant, the "Hero of Appomattox," and lost dismally in the popular vote.

  • Early Opposition to Slavery

    • After the rebellion, and after a second conspiracy was discovered in 1802 among enslaved boatmen along the Appomattox and Roanoke Rivers, the Virginia Assembly banned hiring out of slaves in 1808 and required freed blacks to leave the state within 12 months or face re-enslavement (1806).

  • Union Victories in the Western Theater

    • Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

  • Stalemate in the Eastern Theater

    • It has been argued that the western theater was more strategically important in defeating the Confederacy, but it is inconceivable that the civilian populations of both sides could have considered the war to be at an end without the resolution of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.

  • Grant's Pursuit of Lee

    • Petersburg, a prosperous city of 18,000, was a supply center for Richmond, given its location just south of the capital, its site on the Appomattox River providing navigable access to the James River, and its role as a major junction for five railroads.

  • Conclusion: Reasons for Union Victory

    • In early April 1865, Lee’s army was fighting Grant’s forces in a series of battles in the Appomattox Campaign that stretched Lee’s lines of defenses very thin.