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APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 226 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APPOMATTOX See also:

COURT See also:HOUSE , a See also:village of Appomattox See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., 25 M. E. of See also:Lynchburg, in the S. See also:part of the See also:state. It is served by the See also:Norfolk & Western railway. The village was the See also:scene of the surrender of the Confederate See also:Army of See also:Northern Virginia under See also:General See also:Robert E. See also:Lee to the Federal forces under See also:Lieutenant-General U. S. See also:Grant on See also:Sunday the 9th of See also:April 1865. The terms were: " the See also:officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the See also:government of the See also:United States until properly exchanged, and each See also:company or regimental See also:commander to sign a like See also:parole for the men of their commands," . . . neither " See also:side arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage " to be surrendered; and, as many privates in the Confederate Army owned horses and mules, all horses and mules claimed by men in the. Confederate Army to be See also:left in their See also:possession.

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