Appomattox Court House

Lee's capitulation locale

Appomattox Court House is the Virginia village where Confederate General Robert E.

Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S.

Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.

The name has become shorthand for that surrender and for decisive endings generally: The election was his Appomattox.

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