USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

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Which city did Grant lay siege to for nine 9 months forcing the Confederates to retreat to Appomattox?

(A) Gettysburg

(B) Chattanooga

(C) ** Petersburg

(D) Richmond

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -General Lee’s final campaign began March 25, 1865, with a Confederate attack on Fort Stedman, near Petersburg. General Grant’s forces counterattacked a week later on April 1 at Five Forks, forcing Lee to abandon Richmond and Petersburg the following day.

Concept note-2: -By February 1865, Lee has only 45, 000 soldiers to oppose Grant’s 110, 000. Grant continues to order attacks and cut off rail lines. On April 2, Union forces launch an all-out assault that cripples Lee’s army. That evening, Grant evacuates Petersburg. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House a week later.

Concept note-3: -Appomattox County, VA | Apr 9, 1865. Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces and leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.