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Our first stop was at the site of General Grant's Headquarters that was on this little rise.
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A little farther on we saw the Confederate Cemetery where 18 Confederate soldiers are buried who died in the battle here on April 8 and April 9, 1865. Many years later the remains of a Union soldier were discovered and he is buried in the Confederate Cemetery with an American flag by his gravestone (American flag isn't visible in our photo).
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We drove on to the Appomattox Court House, parked our car and then
walked up the gravel path to the Appomattox Court House.
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We saw photos of Appomattox before restoration
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and then after restoration.
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We looked at the displays and artifacts before watching a 15 minute movie in the theater about the Appomattox Campaign and Lee's surrender to Grant.
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We then walked over to the Clover Hill Tavern. The village of Appomattox Court House was originally named Clover Hill and the name was changed when Appomattox county was created and Clover Hill became the county seat.
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Inside the Clover Hill Tavern we saw printing presses that had been set up in the tavern and were used to print parole passes for each of the Confederate soldiers. These passes allowed the soldiers safe passage back home and was proof that they were paroled prisoners. Over 28,000 of these parole passes were printed in a few days.
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The tavern kitchen is behind the tavern and is the gift shop and bookstore. We bought some postcards and a few souvenirs there.
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We looked in at the Woodson Law Office and Plunkett-Meeks Store and then walked over to the Wilmer McLean house.
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Wilmer McLean and his family had lived in a farmhouse at Manassas and lived there during both battles of Bull Run. After the second battle in 1962 Wilmer McLean moved his family 70 miles away to Appomattox Court House and then in 1865 the Civil War found him again when his home was used by General Lee and General Grant to work out the details for Lee's surrender.
The parlor in the McLean home has been recreated the way it was when Lee and Grant met here. I asked the ranger there about the tables on display in the parlor and she said they were reproductions of the actual tables that Lee and Grant used and that the originals are in museums.
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We walked downstairs to the lower level of the McLean house to look at the kitchen.
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We saw this small "bathtub" in the kitchen and were curious what it was used for - a child's tub? Anyway tonight I tried "googling" different descriptions and finally found this website and a photo of a tub that matched the one we saw. It isn't a child's bathtub, it's a hip or sitz bath.
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After leaving the McLean house, we took a few more photos of some of the other buildings there and then walked back to our car. We saw this cute dog sitting patiently in a truck while his family was visiting Appomattox Court House.
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We drove a little further on in the park to stop at the site of General Lee's headquarters. The actual site of his headquarters was down a wooded path a little distance from the parking lot and we decided not to walk out to the site. We didn't bring any bug repellent with us and we figured we'd be lunch for some hungry bugs.
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The next post continues the rest of our day here at Appomattox.
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