| At Appomattox Court House, where Robert E. Lee surrendered, a tea towel was used as a flag of truce. |
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| But an unsated hunger for meaning forbids us cynicism, even a hundred and forty-eight years after Appomattox. |
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| Description: In April 1865, the main Confederate army surrendered to the United States at Appomattox. |
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| The flag of truce — actually an ordinary dish towel a Confederate captain had recently bought in Richmond — used at Appomattox. |
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| For it was he who accepted the surrender of the Confederate colours at Appomattox. |
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| He co-wrote the book and lyrics for the musicals Sunset Boulevard and Dracula and the libretto for the Philip Glass operas Waiting for the Barbarians and Appomattox. |
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| Few of these works, however, fully recognise the South's political triumph, only a decade after Appomattox, that reversed the Union's military victory. |
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| Although the nation would last only another month before Lee's surrender at Appomattox would bring the war to an end, this was a flag that could have endured. |
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| Grant at the battle of Appomattox followed by a series of surrenders by Confederate generals throughout the southern states. |
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| Grant chased Lee and got in front of him, so that when Lee's army reached Appomattox Court House, they were surrounded. |
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| In March 1646, the colony decided to build a fourth frontier fort, Fort Henry, at the falls of the Appomattox, where the modern city of Petersburg is located. |
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| Initially, Lee did not intend to surrender, but planned to regroup at the village of Appomattox Court House, where supplies were to be waiting, and then continue the war. |
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