Appomattox Campaign
The Appomattox Campaign was a military campaign during the American Civil War. It happened in 1865 in Virginia. At the start of the campaign from March 30–April 1, 1865, Union general U.S. Grant captured Petersburg, Virginia. Confederate general Robert E. Lee tried to get the Army of Northern Virginia moved to North Carolina, so he could fight along with other Confederate soldiers. But Grant surrounded Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse and forced Lee to surrender. After Lee's surrender, other Confederate armies started to surrender too.
Appomattox Campaign Media
Major General John B. Gordon
Major General John G. Parke
The Peacemakers by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1868, depicts the historic 1865 meeting on the River Queen
Opposing commanders: Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, at Cold Harbor, photographed by Edgar Guy Fawx in 1864; Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, photographed by Mathew Brady in 1865
Actions at Petersburg before and during the Battle of Five Forks
Brigadier General Joshua Chamberlain
Brigadier General (Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer
Brigadier General W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee
Colonel Thomas T. Munford
Major General Philip Sheridan
