On Howe Flood Highway (State Highway 24), on the left when traveling south.
You are standing where Gen. James Longstreet’s corps entrenched early in the morning of April 9, 1865, to protect the rear of the Army of Northern Virginia. Gen. Robert E. Lee and most of the army bivouacked about four miles south, just short of . . . — — Map (db m6051) HM
On Howe Flood Highway (State Highway 24), on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
April 8, 1865. General Longstreet built breastworks here to protect the rear of Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. On the morning of April 9, General Lee arrived hoping to meet General Grant. After learning that he was approaching from . . . — — Map (db m290192) HM
On Old Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 24) at Old Grist Mill Road and Wildway Road (County Route 616), on the right when traveling west on Old Courthouse Road.
Thomas S. Bocock, lawyer and politician, was
born in present-day Appomattox Co. (then
part of Buckingham Co.) on 18 May 1815. In
1846, he was elected to the U. S. House of
Representatives and served there until 1861.
In 1859, Bocock was . . . — — Map (db m64026) HM
