Appomattox
Americannoun
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a town in central Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War.
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a river flowing E from E central Virginia to the James River. 137 miles (220 km) long.
noun
Example Sentences
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In Richmond: For “Lincoln,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at the McLean house in Appomattox is re-created in front of a facade of the McLean house that the film crew built on an estate roughly 90 miles away from the historic site.
Lincoln shows up in Glass’ 2007 opera, “Appomattox,” commissioned by San Francisco Opera and later revised and expanded for Washington National Opera in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox treating Robert E. Lee with perfectly calibrated respect, letting Lee’s officers keep their sidearms and his men their personal horses.
Another just opened in February, owned by the former head of the Appomattox County GOP.
From Slate
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.
From New York Times
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