BATTLE OF APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

THE BATTLE OF THE APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

• Happened on April 9th 1865
• Appomattox courthouse, Virginia

Primary commanding officers

Confederate leader
- Robert e. Lee

Union leader
- Ulysses s. Grant

FACTS OF THE BATTLE

• They knew it was going to end soon
• This was the ending battle of the civil war
• Grants army was growing and lees army was dying

SPECIFIC DETAILS ON THE BATTLE

• Lee's first objective was to reassemble and supply his men at Amelia courthouse
• In just over one week lee lost half his army
• The treaty to end the war in Virginia was drafted by native Americans

OUTCOME

• Ended the civil war
• Confederates lost
• Union won

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS BATTLE

• It ended the war all together
• Effective end to the civil war
• The nation reunited after that

SOURCES

• Wikipedia
• History.com
• History.org
• Historynet.com