Appomattox Courthouse, a village of Virginia, 20 miles E. of Lynchburg. Here General Lee, on April 9, 1865, surrendered the army of Northern Virginia, 27,805 men strong, to General Grant.
Appomattox Courthouse
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 350
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