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National Park Service, Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2002, ISBN 0-912627-70-0 Winik, Jay, April 1865 / The Month That Saved America , HarperCollins, 2006, ISBN 9780060899684
The final campaign for Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States, began when the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River in June 1864. The armies under the command of Lieutenant General and General in Chief Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) laid siege to Petersburg, south of Richmond, intending to cut the two cities' supply lines and force the Confederates to evacuate.
National Park Service, Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2002, ISBN 0-912627-70-0 Tidwell, William A., April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War , Kent State University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87338-515-2
For some time, the village had been in decline after it was bypassed by a railroad in the 1850s, and when the courthouse burned in 1892, the county government was moved to what is now known as Appomattox, Virginia. [4] In 1963 and 1964, the courthouse was rebuilt, and it is now the visitor center for Appomattox Court House National Historical ...
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park preserves the site of the Battle of Appomattox Court House; Boston National Historical Park preserves several sites of the American Revolutionary War, including the Battle of Bunker Hill; Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park preserves the site of the Battle of Cedar Creek
In the 1840s the Sweeney clan lived on the stagecoach road northeast of Clover Hill, the name of the village now known as the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. John Sweeney, a wheelwright and Charles' brother, lived in the old family home on the north bank of the Appomattox river with his wife and four children. When Joel was not ...
Notable buildings include the Appomattox Courthouse (1892), Appomattox County Jail (1895-1897), County Office Building (1940), Knickerbocker Hotel (1892), Bank of Appomattox (1906), Appomattox Middle School (1908), Appomattox Pentecostal Holiness Church (c. 1900), and "The Nebraska House" (1854, 1872, c. 1896).
The Bocock–Isbell House has major importance to the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park by virtue of its association with the history and the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant of the American Civil War. [5] It was constructed in 1849 to 1850 by Thomas S. Bocock and Henry F. Bocock, brothers.