Effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museums exhibits. Linda lipscomb welcome Linda Lipscomb welcome to the museum. The museum here has been open for almost three years now. And we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond, virginia. We house here a lot of the artifacts that were from the confederates. We will tell you about how we got some of those artifacts. Here, we kind of focus on appomattox since we are in this location. One of the things people ask us about is why appomattox . Why did lee come here to surrender . It was not his original intent of course. Lee, on his retreat from petersburg, had been looking for supplies. His goal was to find supplies for his men and turn south to meet with general johnston in north carolina. As he is traveling from petersburg grant had been able to effectively block all the railroad supplies lee has waiting for hi
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