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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 ...
A Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1953. ISBN 0-385-04451-8. Dunkerly, Robert M. To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place, and the Surrenders of the Confederacy. Emerging Civil War Series. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61121-252-5. Marvel, William. A Place Called Appomattox. Chapel Hill ...
The Falling Flag: Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox, E.T. Hale, 1874 Bradford, Ned, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War , Gramercy Books, 1988, ISBN 0-517-29820-1 Chaffin, Tom, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah , Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 0-8090-8504-6
The resulting Appomattox Campaign ended with Lee's surrender to Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House. Richmond–Petersburg was a costly campaign for both sides. The initial assaults on Petersburg in June 1864 cost the Union 11,386 casualties, to approximately 4,000 for the Confederate defenders.
After this defeat, the 13th was sent to Richmond, Virginia and was present at the final surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. At the time of the surrender, only 4 officers and 81 men of the 13th Regiment remaining, from an original strength of 1,200. [5]
Appomattox, shorthand for the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil War, may refer to: 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
The public commemoration of the Civil War began with Congress' 1957 creation of the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. The Commission was asked to work with, and encourage, the U.S. states (especially the ones created before the war) to create commissions to commemorate the war, and to some extent coordinate centennial activities by the private sector.
Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 53-9982, ISBN 0-385-04451-8 Catton, Bruce, This Hallowed Ground , Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 56-5960 Davis, Burke, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts , Wings Books, 1960 & 1982, ISBN 0-517-37151-0