Appomattox monument

Appomattox Court House > Confederate Cemetery

The Appomattox monument was placed in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is one of a series of markers created throughout Virginia in the 1920’s by the Battlefield Markers Association, Western Division. These were some of the first highway markers.

The Confederate Cemetery is a short distance away, along with the Strategic Delay and Wartime Landscape wayside markers and two markers to North Carolina troops that did some of the last fighting of the Army of Northern Virginia here.

The Appomattox monument, placed in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy

From the main tablet of the monument:

Appomattox

Here on Sunday April 9, 1865
after four years of heroic struggle
in defense of principles believed fundamental
to the existence of our government
Lee surrendered 9000 men, the remnant
of an army still unconquered in spirit

Closeup of the tablet from the Appomattox monument, placed in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy

Rear of the Appomattox monument, placed in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy

From the tablet on the back of the monument:

Erected June 11 1926
by
Appomattox Chapter
United Daughters of Confederacy

Closeup of the tablet on the rear of the Appomattox monument, placed in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy

Location

The Appomattox monument is on the southwest side of the park on the north side of the Confederate Cemetery parking area off Virginia Route 24.