Appomattox County Eternal Flame

War Memorial

(East Side):World War I

James R. Beasley

Jerry S. Beasley

James T. Cyrus

Edward B. Gunter

Robert F. Irving

Sam J. Harvey

Herman L. Lee

Thomas A. Owen

Phillip B. Swan

Campbell W. Teeter

Melvin M. Watkins

Melvin Watson

John L. Deaner

(North Side):World War II

George D. Akers • James D. Lee

Dewey C. ...

Appomattox County Units

That Served in the Confederate States Army

Appomattox Invincibles

Company A, 20th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery

Formerly Company A, 44th Virginia Infantry

Appomattox Greys

Company H 18th Virginia Infantry

Appomattox Rangers

Company H, 2nd Virginia Cavalry

Liberty Guards

Company B, 46th Virginia Infantry

Kyle's Company Heavy Artillery

Jones Company

Company I, 3rd ...

Appomattox Manor

Patented 1635 by Captain Francis Eppes, who came by tradition in the Hopewell. Owned by the same family probably longer than any land in U.S. Shelled by British during American Revolution.

Marker is at the intersection of Cedar Lane and Pecan ...

Ewell Crosses the Appomattox

Racing West

(preface)

After Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke through Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s lines at Petersburg on April 2, 1865, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. The Army of Northern Virginia retreated west on several roads, with ...

March to Appomattox

Part of Lee's army passed here retreating westward, April 8, 1865. The Sixth (Wright's) Corps of Grant's Army passed here, in pursuit, in the afternoon of the same day, moving on toward Appomattox.

Marker is at the intersection of James Madison ...

Post-Appomattox Tragedy

On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.

Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,

and two other armed veterans of Co. D,

7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal

cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.

The horses were returned the next day to ...

Appomattox Court House

Here, amidst the once-quiet streets and lanes of Appomattox Court House, Lee, Grant, and their tired armies enacted one of the great dramas in American history.

“General, this is deeply humiliating; but I console myself with the thought that the whole ...

Appomattox Court House

Here, amidst the once-quiet streets and lanes of Appomattox Court House, Lee, Grant, and their tired armies enacted one of the great dramas in American history.

“General, this is deeply humiliating; but I console myself with the thought that the whole ...

Appomattox Campaign (Sutherland Station)

At Sutherland Station, on 2 Apr. 1865, the Confederates made a last attempt to maintain control of the South Side Railroad. Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth organized the defense before returning to the main line in Petersburg. Brig. Gen. John ...

Battle of Appomattox Station

Lee's Retreat

April 8, 1865

Union cavalry arrived early in the evening and captured three of Lee’s four supply trains. Advancing toward Appomattox Court House, they encountered the surplus Confederate wagons and artillery train. After a brief conflict, numerous wagons ...