James River tributary

Usage examples of appomattox.

As we went on, the Valleys of the James and the Appomattox, down which our way lay, broadened into an expanse of arable acres, and the faces of those streams were frequently flecked by gem-like little islands.

Greathouse wanted, I imagine, one last acknowledgment of his rank in society on neutral ground, a sort of surrender at Appomattox, with the warden as Ulysses S.

A few days before the surrender at Appomattox a thunderous engagement between the commands of Sheridan and Pickett was unknown to the latter commander, a mile in the rear of his own line.

At the junction of the Appomattox and the James, at a place he calls Wynauk, the natives welcomed them with rejoicing and entertained them with dances.

Faulkner somewhat alters the timing of the events of the War, and in Chapter VI he places Reconstruction much closer to the surrender at Appomattox than it was in reality.

Laroche's grandfather used it from Bull Run to Appomattox in the Civil War.

They came to no sizable communities west of Appomattox, and the few farmhouses they passed were shuttered and smokeless, and there was no one else on the road except an occasional other soldier in gray, like themselves, riding or trudging somewhere homeward.

For artistic purposes Faulkner somewhat alters the timing of the events of the War, and in Chapter VI he places Reconstruction much closer to the surrender at Appomattox than it was in reality.

Five days before Appomattox, at the Battle of Five Forks, he is killed by a sniper's bullet.

I was flabbergasted to see Little Phil there, but he would have been a damned sight more so, if he had looked up just then, to see me driving a circus wagon through Kurhesse—a Confederate he'd fought against in the Shenandoah Valley, and stood next to during the stacking of arms at Appomattox.