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Appomattox
[ ap-uh-mat-uhks ]
noun
- a town in central Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War.
- a river flowing E from E central Virginia to the James River. 137 miles (220 km) long.
Appomattox
/ ˌæ±èəˈ³¾Ã¦³ÙÉ™°ì²õ /
noun
- a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War
Example Sentences
In the end, loud as he is, however incessantly he babbles on, he may be overseeing a future “stillness,†if not at Appomattox, then across this planet itself.
Another just opened in February, owned by the former head of the Appomattox County GOP.
This hulk of metal, a deepwater platform called Appomattox and owned by Shell, collects the oil and gas that rigs tap from reservoirs thousands of feet below the seafloor.
Even after the Appomattox surrender, the secessionist undersheriff, King, went on insisting, “We have been and are yet secessionist.â€
Within five years of Appomattox, Robert E. Lee’s former lieutenant was leading Black militiamen into battle against white insurrectionists—his own onetime comrades in arms.
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