APPOMATTOX

COURT

See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

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 .