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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Appomattox Court-House , (search)
Appomattox Court-House,
The seat of government of Appomattox county, Va., about 25 miles east of Lynchburg; famous as the scene of the surrender of General
M'Lean's House, the place of Lee's Scrrender. Lee to General Grant.
The Army of Northern Virginia was reduced by famine, disease, death, wounds, and capture to a feeble few. These struggled against enormous odds with almost unexampled fortitude, but were compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and strength.
On April 8, a portion of Sheridan's cavalry, under General Custer, supported by Devine, captured four Confederate supply-trains at Appomattox Station, on the Lynchburg Railroad.
Lee's vanguard approaching, were pushed back to Appomattox Court-House, 5 miles northward — near which was Lee's main army — losing twenty-five guns and many wagons and prisoners.
Sheridan hurried forward the remainder of his command, and on that evening he stood directly across Lee's pathway of retreat.
Lee's last avenue of escape was c
Dearing, James, 1840-
Soldier; born in Campbell county, Va., April 25, 1840; graduated at Hanover Academy; became a cadet at West Point, but at the outbreak of the Civil War resigned to join the Confederate army, in which he gained the rank of brigadier-general.
He took part in the principal engagements between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, and was mortally wounded in a singular encounter with Brig.-Gen. Theodore Read, of the National army.
The two generals at the head of their respective forces met on opposite sides of the Appomattox in April, 1865, and in a pistol fight which ensued Read was shot dead and Dearing was so severely wounded that he died soon afterwards in Lynchburg, Va.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Early , Jubal Anderson , 1816 -1894 (search)
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894
Military officer; born in Franklin county, Va., Nov. 3, 1816; graduated from West Point in 1837, and served in the Florida war the same year.
In 1838 he resigned his commission and studied law. In 1847 he served as a major-general of volunteers during the war with Mexico.
He was appointed colonel in the Confederate service at the outbreak of the Civil War. He lost but two battles—one at Gettysburg,
Jubal A. Early. when he commanded a division of Lee's army, and the second at Cedar Creek, where Sheridan arrived in time to rally his men after his famous ride.
In 1888 he published a book giving the history of the last year of the Civil War, during which time he was in command of the Army of the Shenandoah.
He died in Lynchburg, Va.., March 2, 189
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee , Robert Edward 1807 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McIlwaine , Richard 1834 - (search)
McIlwaine, Richard 1834-
Clergyman; born in Petersburg, Va., May 20, 1834; graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1853, and afterwards studied at the Union Theological Seminary of Virginia, and at the Free Church College of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Returning to the United States, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in December, 1858.
Subsequently he held pastorates at Amelia, Farmville, and Lynchburg, Va. He served in the Confederate army as lieutenant and chaplain of the 44th Virginia Regiment.
In 1872-83 he was secretary of the boards of home and foreign missions of the Southern Presbyterian Church, and in the latter year became president of Hampden-Sidney College.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pollard , Edward Albert 1828 -1872 (search)
Pollard, Edward Albert 1828-1872
Journalist; born in Nelson county, Va., Feb. 27, 1828; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1849; studied law in Baltimore, Md., and was editor of the Richmond examiner in 1861-67.
He was a stanch advocate of the Confederacy during the Civil War, but bitterly opposed Jefferson Davis's policy; was captured near the end of the war and held a prisoner for eight months. His publications include Letters of the Southern spy in Washington and elsewhere; Southern history of the War; Observations in the North; Eight months in prison and on parole; The lost cause; A New Southern history of the War of the Confederates; Lee and his Lieutenants; The lost cause regained; Life of Jefferson Davis, with the secret history of the Southern Confederacy; Black diamonds gathered in the Darky homes of the South; and The Virginia tourist.
He died in Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 12, 1872.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shenandoah Valley , chronology of the operations in the (search)