A Strategic Delay
Appomattox Court House Nat’l Hist Park
As Lee’s Confederate Army retreated west, Federal forces blocked their way. Near this spot, Union artillery pieces commanded by Lieutenant James H. Lord and a cavalry brigade led by Brevet Brigadier General Charles Smith proved a strategic delay to the Confederate retreat – allowing time for other Federal units to move into position and ensure General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865.
Marker is on Old Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 24), on the right when traveling west.
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