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unusual facts about Appomattox


Given Campbell

Following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Campbell was hand selected by President Jefferson Davis to lead Davis' escape and to choose a few members of Duke's Cavalry brigade to protect his person.


140th Pennsylvania Infantry

Recruited in late 1862, it fought from the Battle of Chancellorsville through the war until the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Almanzo W. Litchard

On April 9, 1865, Almanzo and Alexander were present at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to Grant.

Battle of Appomattox Court House

James Thurber, himself the grandson of a Union veteran, wrote a humorous short story, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox," which was collected in the anthology, The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, and again later in The Thurber Carnival.

Ben Horne

Jerry, Audrey, and Bobby Briggs, under Jacoby's direction, serve to enable Horne's fantasy up to a surrender of the Union at Appomattox.

Benjamin Skinner

His great-great-grandfather, Robert Pratt, served with the 1st Connecticut Artillery at the Siege of Petersburg, which led to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Dixie

Abraham Lincoln, upon hearing of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, asked the military band to play Dixie.

Dwayne Croft

He created the role of Nick Carraway in John Harbison's The Great Gatsby in 1999, that of Jaufré Rudel in Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin in 2000, and that of Robert E. Lee in Philip Glass's Appomattox.

Lee and Grant at Appomattox

Lee and Grant at Appomattox is an historical fiction children’s novel by MacKinlay Kantor.

Philip Skinner

In 2007, Skinner created the role of Edgar Ray Killen when San Francisco Opera staged the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera, Appomattox.

Stephen Minot Weld

After Appomattox, a battle in which his son Stephen Minot Weld Jr. served with distinction, Weld was instrumental in raising the quarter million dollars that funded the construction of Memorial Hall, a monument to Harvard's war casualties.

They Died with Their Boots On

He takes command of the Michigan Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg, wins the day, and many victories follow him all the way to Appomattox.

Virginia State Route 400

The state highway meets the eastern ends of SR 236 (Duke Street) and SR 7 (King Street) in the Alexandria Historic District, where the Lyceum and Beulah Baptist Church line the southbound side of the street and the statue Appomattox lies in the middle of the street at its intersection with Prince Street.


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