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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eccentric spelling of plural of Appomattoc, name of a local subgroup of the Powhatan (Algonquian) confederacy in Virginia (first attested as Apamatic, 1607). Site of last battle for Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) in the American Civil War, and of Lee's surrender to Grant in Wilmer McLean house, April 9, 1865.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 767
Land area (2000): 2.177688 sq. miles (5.640186 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004848 sq. miles (0.012556 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.182536 sq. miles (5.652742 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02072
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.358973 N, 78.826438 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24522
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Appomattox
Housing Units (2000): 5828
Land area (2000): 333.686096 sq. miles (864.242984 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.047740 sq. miles (2.713633 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 334.733836 sq. miles (866.956617 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.367371 N, 78.818262 W
Headwords:
Appomattox, VA
Appomattox County
Appomattox County, VA
Wikipedia
Appomattox may refer to:
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Appomattox County, Virginia
- Appomattox, Virginia, a town in that county
- Appomattox Basin, a name for the Tri-Cities, Virginia region
- Appomattox Court House (disambiguation), several meanings
- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, a National Historical Park in Virginia
- Appomattox Manor, a manor in City Point, Virginia
- Appomattox River, a river in Virginia
- Battle of Appomattox Court House, a battle of the American Civil War
- Battle of Appomattox Station, a battle of the American Civil War
- Appomattox Campaign, a campaign of American Civil War
- Appomattox (ship), a large wooden steamship
- Appomattox (banana boat), a British steamship of the early 20th century
- Appomattox (opera), a new opera by Philip Glass
Appomattox is an opera in English based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton. The work had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on October 5, 2007, with a cast that included Dwayne Croft as Robert E. Lee, Andrew Shore as Ulysses S. Grant. The piece is about two and a half hours long, in two acts, with a prologue and an epilogue.
Appomattox is the name of a bronze statue that is positioned in the center of the intersection of South Washington Street ( Virginia Route 400) and Prince Street in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States. It was created by sculptor M. Caspar Buberl and commissioned and erected by the Robert E. Lee camp of the United Confederate Veterans in 1889. The form of the soldier was designed by John Adams Elder, who modeled it after a painting of the same title that shows a lone Confederate viewing the aftermath of the battle of Appomattox Court House, where Gen. Robert E. Lee ultimately surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant.
The dedication ceremony was held on May 24, 1889, and was attended by a vast crowd. It was noted that by noon of that day, a great influx of visitors had swarmed the town of Alexandria to take part in the ceremony, which was overseen by Fitzhugh Lee, who was governor of Virginia at that time. Joseph E. Johnston, former Confederate general of the Army of Tennessee, was also in attendance. The UCV foresaw the controversy that would arise over the monument. Thus, they petitioned the Virginia House of Delegates in the same year to have it protected by state law.
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.