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Sam: On April 8th, Lee and his troops arrived at Appomattox County, his target being the South Side Railroad at Appomattox Station where supplies waited. Union General George A. Custer reached them first burning three trains full of supplies. Lee, refusing to surrender his army, hoped for more supplies westward Lynchburg. On April 9th, Confederate Major General John B. Gordon attacked the Union cavalry that were under Major General Phil Sheridan not that far from the county court house. Realizing that they were outmatched, Gordon stopped his attack and Lee's army was trapped. Soon after, Lee agreed to meet at the court house later that afternoon. There, at the court house, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia was signed. Three days later they ended the war in Virginia. This caused a chain reaction with more surrenders, thus causing the fighting to stop in the Civil War.
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