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Appomattox Court House
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Appomattox Court House

Former town in Virginia, USA, scene of the surrender on 9 April 1865 of the Confederate army under Robert E Lee to the Union army under Ulysses S Grant, which ended the American Civil War.

The house where the surrender was signed is now a museum, 5 km/3 mi from the modern town of Appomattox.



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