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Encyclopedia Britannica



APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 226 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE , a
village
  of Appomattox county,
Virginia
 , U.S.A., 25 M. E. of Lynchburg, in the S.
part
  of the state. It is served by the Norfolk & Western railway. The
village
  was the
scene
  of the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern
Virginia
  under General Robert E. Lee to the Federal forces under
Lieutenant
 -General U. S. Grant on Sunday the 9th of
April
  1865. The terms were: " the
officers
  to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regimental
commander
  to sign a like
parole
  for the men of their commands," . . . neither " 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 left in their possession.


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