James Bowen's photos with the keyword: American Civil War

Apparently the French, British, and Americans have all held this fort at one time or another. The French help it because it's across the river from Quebec, the England because it was in their part of the continent (at the time), and the Americans when we Brits ceded the land to them. The American promptly used it to bomb British Quebec during the war of 1812.

This homestead is where the biggest surrender of Confederate troups occured during the American Civil War.

A matter of a few weeks before the end of the American Civil War, the Confederates won what must have been one of their last victories here. Incidentally, the Natural Bridge runs to the right here.

The surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia occured in this bulding.

I always assumed that the Lee surrender to Grant occured at the court house in Appomattox. Sadly I was wrong. Viriginians used to call all their county seats court house, so the town was actually called Appomattox Court House because it's the Appomattox county seat and has the local courthouse there. Technically then, I suppose that that makes this the Appomattox Court House Court House