Battle of Appomattox

"The Surrender at Appomattox" - Mosaic Mural by Allyn Cox, 1965 at the General Grant National Memorial

Title: Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865 Physical description: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.

Title: Appomattox Court House, Va. Federal soldiers at the courthouse Abstract: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Physical description: 1 negative : Notes: Courthouses.

1965 US commemorative postage stamp, Civil War, Battle of Appomattox centennial [civil war]

THIS PAINTING BY LOUIS MATHIEU GUILLAUME (1816-1892) SHOWS HIS INTERPRETATION OF THE SURRENDER SCENE INSIDE THE MCLEAN HOUSE. (NPS)

THIS PAINTING BY LOUIS MATHIEU GUILLAUME (1816-1892) SHOWS HIS INTERPRETATION OF THE SURRENDER SCENE INSIDE THE MCLEAN HOUSE. (NPS)

Blank soldier's U.S. Army discharge certificate, with head-and-shoulders portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan and James B. McPherson; General Robert E. Lee's surrender and a Union camp. Cropped from Library of Congress original.

Lee Surrendering to Grant at Appomattox

3 page document of the Civil War surrender of the Confederacy under General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. See also: page 2, page 3. Original note: Although this item was collected by the Record and Pension Office in 1898, it is dated June 10, 1865.

3 page document of the Civil War surrender of the Confederacy under General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. See also: page 1, page 3 Original note: Although this item was collected by the Record and Pension Office in 1898, it is dated June 10, 1865.

3 page document of the Civil War surrender of the Confederacy under General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. See also: page 1, page 2 Original note: Although this item was collected by the Record and Pension Office in 1898, it is dated June 10, 1865.

A plate from Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information representing America

Title: Custer receiving Flag of Truce Abstract/medium: 1 drawing on green-blue paper : pencil ; 13.6 x 19.1 cm. (sheet).

Title: Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865 Abstract/medium: 1 drawing on grey-blue paper : pencil ; 20.8 x 30.7 cm. (sheet).

Title: Genl. Grant at Appomattox Abstract/medium: 1 print.

Albany Evening Journal. Albany, NY: Dawson & Co., April 10, 1865. Vol. 36, No. 10,588. 4pp, 20.75 x 28 in. A full page notice (the entirety of page 4) of the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender at Appomattox the day before, with the bold heading "General Lee And His Army Have Surrendered!," above an enormous bald eagle with "Liberty & Union Forever" between its wings and "America, By The Grace of God, Independent," on the banner in its beak. Below, "Slavery and Treason Buried in the Same Grave!," and at the sides, "Dawning of the Day of Peace, and All Honor to the Gallant Brave."

At Farmville, VA, Eugene Beague of the 45th Pennsylvania saw many Confederates making their way home after the surrender. He wrote: “During our stay in the vicinity of Farmville we got to be quite chummy with the Confederate paroled prisoners who were very much in evidence on the streets after the surrender. I don’t know what impression we made on their minds but they looked a great deal better to us meekly eating our hardtack than they did coming at us full drive with loaded muskets and yelling like destruction!” Keywords: soldier; soldiers; confederate; union; war; battle; hardtack; musket; farmville; prisoners

Pvt. Hiram Williams (CP 1101), National Museum of Health and Medicine Description: Private Hiram Williams, Company K, 98th Pennsylvania volunteers, shows the stump of his left foot, which was amputated as the result of a gunshot wound received at the battle of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9th, 1865. The patient recovered well. History is on reverse: “Hiram Williams. Amputation of leg and foot. Shell wound. Hiram Williams, private, Co. K, 98th Pa. Vols., aged 23, admitted to Harewood U.S.A. Gen’l Hospital, Sept. 13, 1865, convalescent from circular amputation of left leg, lower third, and Heyes’ operation of the right foot at junction of the tarsal and metatarsal bones, result of shell wound. Wounded at the battle of Appomattox C.H., Va., April 9, 1865. Operation performed previous to being admitted to this hospital. Operator and anaesthetics unknown. On admission, however, the constitutional state of patient was very good; wound has now entirely healed, and patient is doing very well; has considerable use of right foot, and is now awaiting an artificial limb, and his discharge from the U.S. service.” Date: circa 1865 Photo ID: CP 1101 Source collection: OHA 75: Contributed Photographs Related Material: CP 276 Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/)