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A Place Called Appomattox. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8078-2568-6. Marvel, William. Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8078-5703-8. Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill ...
The Bocock–Isbell House has major importance to the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park by virtue of its association with the history and the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant of the American Civil War. [5] It was constructed in 1849 to 1850 by Thomas S. Bocock and Henry F. Bocock, brothers.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Houston County, Texas. ... Downes-Aldrich House: April 19, 1978 : 206 N. 7th St.
Battle of Appomattox Court House, a battle of the American Civil War that was a culmination of the Appomattox Campaign and resulted in the surrender of Robert E. Lee; Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, a National Historical Park in Virginia at the site of the surrender; Appomattox may also refer to: Appomattox County, Virginia, in ...
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to forces of the Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of the James and Army of the Shenandoah) under the overall command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, marking the effective ...
While the war continued after the surrender of Lee's army, the surrender at Appomattox Court House has become widely symbolic of the defeat of the Confederacy. [9] The war's end did not stop the decline of the village, and when the county's records were destroyed in an 1892 courthouse fire, it was decided to move the county seat to the railroad ...
The Mariah Wright house is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. [3] It was registered in the National Park Service 's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.
The McLean House near Appomattox, Virginia is within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. The house was owned by Wilmer McLean and his wife Virginia near the end of the American Civil War. Hosted by Union General Ulysses S. Grant, the house served as the location of the surrender conference for the Confederate army of General ...