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Appomattox Court House * Tour the Village

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The North Carolina monument at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is west of the village on the south side of Virginia Route 24. It was erected in 1905 by North Carolina veterans at the location of the last volley fired by the Army of Northern Virginia, fired by North Carolina troops. A walking trail leads from the parking area about 300 yards (one way) to the monument.

Two other small North Carolina markers are north of Virginia Route 24 along the old Richmond-Lynchburg stage road, reachable from the Confederate Cemetery parking area.

The parking area is also the western trailhead for the Appomattox History Trail, which winds 4.5 miles through woods and along the Appomattox River to General Lee’s Headquarters site on the west side of the park.

From the front of the North Carolina monument:

Last at Appomattox

At this place the North Carolina Brigade of Brigadier-General
W.R.Cox of Grimes Division fired The Last Volley 9 April 1865.
Major-General Bryan Grimes of North Carolina planned the last bat-
tle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia and commanded the infantry
engaged therein, the greater part of whom were North Carolinians.

This stone is erected by the authority of
The General Assembly
of
North Carolina
in grateful and perpetual memory of the
valor, endurance, and patriotism
of her sons
who followed with unshaken fidelity the
fortunes of the Confederacy to this closing scene,
faithful to the end.

Erected 9 April 1905.

North Carolina Appomattox Commission
H. A. London, Chairman, E. J. Holt, W. T. Jenkins,
Cyrus S. Watson, A. D. McGill.

From the rear of the North Carolina monument:

North Carolina Troops Paroled
at Appomattox

Brigades

Cox’s	573	Lane’s	570
Grimes’	530	Scales’	719
Johnston’s	463	Ransom’s	405
Lewis’	447	Barringer’s	23
Cook’s	560	Roberts’	90
MacRae’s	442
Major General Grimes and staff			8
Cummings’, Miller’s, Willliams’ Flanner’s Batteries			150
Total North Carolinians Paroled			5012

From the right side of the North Carolina monument:

North Carolina

1860

White population 629.942
Military population 115,359

1861-5

Troops furnished 127,000
Killed in battle 14,522
Died from wounds 5,151
Died from disease 20,502

From the left side of the North Carolina monument:

Esse Quam Videri*
First at Bethel
Farthest to the front
at
Gettysburg
and
Chickamauga
Last at Appomattox

* “To be, rather than to seem”

Location

The North Carolina monument is on the south side of Virginia Route 24. A parking area is about 250 yards west of the Confederate Cemetery parking area and about 0.4 mile west of the driveway to the parking area for the village. A walking trail leads from the parking area about 300 yards (one way) to the monument. The monument is also a stop on the Appomattox History Trail.