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1. APPOM_030426_001.JPG: This is the Wilmer McLean home at Appomattox. McLean had been in Manassas during First Bull Run and had moved down here to be safe from the war. It didn't work out that way. The house itself was dismantled right after the war with thoughts of having it go on tour like Grant's headquarters had from City Point. But funding wasn't available and the house basically rotted in the front yard. The park service rebuilt it when the area was declared a national historic site.
2. APPOM_030426_009.JPG: This is the Appomattox Court House itself. The visitor center is located in here now.
3. APPOM_030426_020.JPG: The Mariah Wright House
4. APPOM_030426_027.JPG: Clover Hill Tavern in the village. The printing presses were set up here after the surrender to print the parole papers.
5. APPOM_030426_044.JPG: Inside the McLean house, many of the family possessions were perhaps unwillingly sold off or even stolen by generals and soldiers who wanted souvenirs after the surrender. As such, there aren't many historic items in the house although they say the candlesticks that you'll see on the mantle are. Most of the originals ended up at the Smithsonian or at other museums. This is a reproduction of Grant's chair during the surrender.
6. APPOM_030426_057.JPG: This is Lee's table during the surrender
7. APPOM_030426_107.JPG: These cannons are said to be located where the last artillery shots were fired during the engagement that resulted in the surrender at the McLean house.
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Wikipedia Description: Appomattox Court House
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Appomattox Court House is a historic village located three miles (5 km) east of Appomattox, Virginia, USA (25 miles east of Lynchburg, Virginia, in the southern part of the state), famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and containing the house of Wilmer McLean, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. The site is now commemorated as Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, a National Historical Park.

History:

Many rural counties in the Southern States had county seats whose names were formed by adding court house to the name of the county. The court house town contains the courthouse building as well as a number of other buildings. In this case, one of those other buildings is the McLean house, a former tavern.

Even before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Appomattox Court House (the South Side Railroad, today a part of the Norfolk Southern, was built to the south of town in 1850), and commercial life tended to congregate at the nearby Appomattox station. As a result, the population of Appomattox Court House never grew much over 150, while Appomattox town grew to the thousands. When the courthouse burned in 1892, it was not rebuilt and a new courthouse was built in Appomattox, sealing the fate of Appomattox Court House as a town. The county seat was formally moved in 1894.

Because the first Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, 1861, took place on the McLean farm farther north in Virginia, it can be said that the Civil War started in McLean's backyard in 1861 and ended in his parlor in 1865 (neither event, however, marked the true beginning or ending of hostilities).

McLean was a retired major in the Virginia militia. He was too old to enlist at the outbreak of the Civil War and decided to move to Appomattox Court House in orde ...More...
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