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4 unusual facts about Battle of Appomattox Court House


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.

Gonzales County, Texas

:April 9 – Robert E. Lee formally surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House.

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.



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