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Appomattox Court House

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ20996485 ↗
Source-derived summary

Appomattox Court House may refer to:

The village of Appomattox Court House, now the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, in central Virginia (U.S.), where Confederate army commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil War.

The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, one of the last battles of the American Civil War.

The New Appomattox Court House, where locals file lawsuits and do legal business in Appomattox County, Virginia.

The Old Appomattox Court House, a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park in Virginia.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1865—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Appomattox, Court and House is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Appomattox Court House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.