a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War
Appomattox in American English
(ˌæpəˈmætəks)
town in central Va., near Lynchburg: pop. 1,800: at a former nearby village (Appomattox Court House) Lee surrendered to Grant (April 9, 1865), ending the Civil War