Appomattox, VA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Settled amid the mild, roaming hills of central Virginia, some sixty miles south of Charlottesville on US-24, APPOMMATTOX marks the spot at which Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met on April 9, 1865 to signify the end of the Civil War. After four years of enormous bloodshed on both sides, the Confederacy bowed out with a mere whimper. Grant's Union troops had cut off a nearby railroad line upon which Lee's final battalion depended for vital supplies, and the half-starved Confederate army had no choice but to submit. Final papers were signed in a private home near the Appommattox Court House. This event, a … more »