2) Appomattox. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Appomattox (ap-uh-MA-tuks), county (335 sq mi/868 sq km; 1990 pop. 12,298), central Va.; Appomattox; 37°22'N 78°48'W. Mfg. at Appomattox; agr. (esp. tobacco, hay,...

3) Appomattox River. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Appomattox River, 137 mi/220 km long, central and E Va.; rises in NE Appomattox co., 10 mi/16 km NE of Appomattox; flows generally E past Farmville, through L. Chesdin...

4) Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), Appomattox co., S central Va., 5 mi/8 km NE of Appomattox, 37°22'N 78°47'W. Site of surrender,...

5) Appomattox. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Appomattox, (apmat´ks) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 1,707), seat of Appomattox co., central Va.; inc. 1925. Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general...

6) Appomattox. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War. The site is now a...

7) Appomattox Court House. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Appomattox Court House (ap-uh-MAT-uhks) A village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending...

8) Appomattox River. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A river rising in south-central Virginia and flowing about 220 km (137 mi) eastward to the James River near Petersburg....

9) Chapter LXVI. Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs
...THE APPOMATTOX, going westward, takes a long sweep to the south-west from the neighborhood of the Richmond and Danville Railroad bridge, and then trends north-westerly....

10) Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox. 1909-14. American Historical Documents, 1000-1904. The Harvard Classics
...latter surrendered his army and practically brought to a close the War of Secession.] Appomattox Court-House, Virginia April 9, 1865. GENERAL: In accordance with...