Civil War Round Table of Fredericksburg
Dedicated to Studying, Discussing, & Preserving the History of the American Civil War
CWRTF Meeting: The Appomattox Campaign
Wed, May 27
|Jepson Alumni Executive Center
Time & Location
May 27, 2026, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Jepson Alumni Executive Center, 1119 Hanover St, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, USA
About the event
CWRTF Meeting: The Appomattox Campaign
Start Time: 5:30 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM
Contact: Elizabeth Daly
Guest: Hampton Newsome
The Appomattox Campaign, March 29–April 9, 1865, consisted of a series of engagements south and west of the Confederate capital at Richmond that ended in the surrender by Robert E. Lee of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). During his Overland Campaign the previous spring, Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant had relentlessly pursued Lee before settling into a ten-month siege of the Confederate transportation hub at Petersburg, south of Richmond. Grant was finally able to dislodge Lee’s army at the Battle of Five Forks (1865), allowing him to take Petersburg and then Richmond. The Confederates fled to Southside Virginia in an attempt to unite with Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee, but Grant maneuvered Lee into a trap near the village of Appomattox Court House. There, on April 9, the Confederate general received terms of surrender from Grant. The remaining Confederate armies also laid down their arms…