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Appomattox Virginia & Appomattox County Area History

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The town was named for the Appomattox River, which was itself named for the Appamatucks branch of the Powhatan tribe who actually lived somewhat to the east of the present town, around the area of present-day Petersburg.
    
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At the time of the Civil War, the present community of Appomattox was the site of a railroad depot on the line between Petersburg and Lynchburg.
  
At the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee made a last desperate attempt to reach this depot, hoping that he could move the Army of Northern Virginia south to meet with Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee in the Carolinas.
  
The arrival of Federal troops blocking Lee's army from the depot was what led to his surrender. The final surrender of Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant took place at the home of Wilmer McLean, a wholesale grocer. This is now known as the McLean House.
  
Here in the seat of Appomattox County travelers can experience pivotal locations from the Civil War era
 
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