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Item Title
Appomattox Courthouse, Appomattox, Appomattox County, VA
Location
Appomattox, VA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS VA-716
Building/structure dates:
1846 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1892 demolished
Building/structure dates:
1964 subsequent work
Significance: Site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
Subjects
FiresLaw EnforcementBrick Buildings
Related Names
Lee, Robert E.
Grant, Ulysses S.
Boucher, Jack E., Photographer
Null, Druscilla J., Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. PORTION OF SIDE FACADE (FOREGROUND), SHOWING VIEW OF NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS
2. Photocopy of photograph (source unknown) Photographer unknown April 1865 MAIN FACADE, SERVING AS BACKDROP FOR POSING UNION SOLDIERS
3. Photocopy of photograph (source unknown) Photographer unknown ca 1890 MAIN FACADE AND SIDE FACADE
4. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF WEST (FRONT) AND SOUTH SIDE
5. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF WEST (FRONT) AND NORTH SIDE
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