APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, a village of Appo mattox county, Virginia, U.S.A., 25m. E. of Lynchburg, in the S.
part of the state. It is served by the Norfolk and Western rail way. The village was the scene of the surrender of the Confeder ate Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee to the Federal forces under Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant on Sun day, April 9, 1865. The terms were : "the officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each com pany or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands," ... neither "side arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage" to be surrendered ; and, as many privates in the Confederate Army owned horses and mules, all horses and mules claimed by men in the Confederate Army to be left in their possession.