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Appomattox Driving and Walking Tour- Stop #4- The Confederate Cemetery and Lord’s Battery

Stop #4 includes the Confederate Cemetery, Lord’s Battery and a few nearby signs. At a future date I will add the Tibbs House Site from the Tibbs Walking Trail, shown in green in the image below.

In this peaceful place, one Federal and eighteen Confederate soldiers are buried, casualties of the battles fought around Appomattox Court House. Seven of the men buried here remain unknown. The Ladies Memorial Association of Appomattox, one of many such organizations formed across the south to bury and memorialize Confederate dead, created the cemetery in 1866. West of the Confederate Cemetery is a three inch ordnance rifled cannon which marks Lieutenant James Lord’s two gun Union artillery battery. Confederate cavalry captured this battery on the morning of April 9, 1865.

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The Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road from Lord’s Battery looking toward Appomattox Court House

Looking toward Appomattox Court House
Looking away from Appomattox Court House

Lord’s Battery

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Next- Stop #5- The North Carolina Monument and Nearby Sites

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