Appomattox

Proper noun

Meaning

The Appomattox River in Virginia, USA.

A town, the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States.

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Examples

A devastating fire on April 9, 1889 (the 24th anniversary of Lee's surrender at Appomattox) destroyed his house and many of his personal possessions, including his personal Civil War documents and memorabilia. Source: Internet

Grant’s forces had whipped his loyalists in the packed hall into a frenzy, essentially by invoking “the candidate from Appomattox!” Source: Internet

For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and Last at Appomattox." Source: Internet

At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment, a cavalry unit, fired the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. Source: Internet

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Source: Internet

At no other time between Sumter and Appomattox did moral character so decisively affect the battle." Source: Internet

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