Appomattox Notes by Liam O'Leary https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny en-us 2017-03-04 19:10:10 UTC 2025-12-07 13:12:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Websites used loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/157798648 1. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattoxstation.html

2. Civil War Readings

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4. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=Reference&currPage=&scanId=&query=&source=&prodId=UHIC&search_within_results=&p=UHIC%3AWHIC&mode=view&catId=&u=mlin_m_msweston&limiter=&display-query=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3048900037&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=]]> 2017-03-04 19:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/157798648 Battle of Appomattox Station loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/157798655 1. Maj. Gen. George A. Custer’s cavalry captured a supply train and twenty-five guns Drove off
Scattered Confederate defenders

Custer captured and burned three trains loaded with supplies for Lee’s army


]]> 2017-03-04 19:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/157798655 Battle of Appomattox Court House loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/157800281 1. General Lee headed west
Arrived in Appomattox County on April 8

Lee and Confederates tried to get food but cut off by Union troops
Tried to escape but captured

2. Lee surrendered his troops a day later saying that he would rather "die a thousand deaths" than surrender
Had no choice

Grant's surrender terms were very generous
Once Lee's officers and men surrendered, sent back home
Would not be disturbed by Union unless they disturbed first
Allowed to keep horses and mules
Food was given to army

3. On April 6th, Lee lost around 6,000 men

Lee got to Appomattox Courthouse on 8 April
That night, reflections of Federal campfires against clouds showed that Confederates were surrounded on three sides

4. Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, is where Confederate army, surrendered to Union
April 9, 1865
This surrender commonly viewed as end of Civil War, but afterward Confederate States' government briefly attempted to maintain its rebellion

Confederates led by General Robert E. Lee
1807–1870
Union troops led by General Ulysses S. Grant
1822–1885

Confederate surrender came after lots of encounters between Confederates and Union
80,000 Union troops made 35,000 Confederate soldiers get out of Petersburg, Virginia
End of March 1865
Grant continued pushing them south
Eventually managed to cut them off and surround them

On April 9, Lee sent flag of truce to Grant
The two generals met that afternoon to arrange surrender
Grant was very generous with terms
A total of 28,000 Confederate troops were released after promising not to fight]]> 2017-03-04 19:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/157800281 Major people loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158205714 1. Maj. Gen. George A. Custer
2. General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee

4. Confederates (35,000)
Union troops (80,000)

Sounds like infantry]]> 2017-03-07 00:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158205714 Scene loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158206020 4. Union had advantage because they had way more people

4. Appomattox and Petersburg, Virginia]]> 2017-03-07 00:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158206020 Strategy loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158206039 Surrender of Lee was important

Lee is struggling

3. On April 6th, Lee lost around 6,000 men

4. Grant kept cutting Lee off and eventually surrounded him causing him to surrender]]> 2017-03-07 00:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158206039 Outcome loleary18 https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158206064 4. Union forces Confederates out of Petersburg and kept pushing them South
Surrounded Confederates in Appomattox

4. Union won because they had more people making the Confederates easier to surround and cutoff

2. It pained General Lee to surrender but he had to
Grant was good to Lee and his men about surrender terms

End of Civil War?]]> 2017-03-07 00:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/loleary18/nnackjab69ny/wish/158206064