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APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
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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.