✦ History

Appomattox campaign

March 29 – April 9, 1865 · Virginia

Result Decisive Union victory

Union armies under Ulysses S. Grant broke Confederate lines at Petersburg and pursued Robert E. Lee's army west. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, which effectively ended the Civil War.

On the map Contemporaries

United States

Confederate States

United States
Confederate States of America
Ulysses S. Grant military commander George Meade military commander Philip Henry Sheridan military commander E. O. C. Ord military commander
Robert E. Lee military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
114,335
Casualties
10,780

Units

Army of the James Army of the Potomac Army of the Shenandoah (Union) 11th Maine Infantry Regiment 185th New York Infantry Regiment 23rd Illinois Infantry Regiment 39th Illinois Infantry Regiment 62nd Ohio Infantry Regiment 67th Ohio Infantry Regiment 6th Ohio Cavalry Regiment 87th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
Army of Northern Virginia First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Fourth Corps, Army of Northern Virginia 11th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

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