Appomattox on the Map: Map
of the Site of the Civil War Surrender Available from Ball State University
Libraries
On April 9, 1865 General
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at the home of
Wilmer and Virginia McLean near Appomattox, Virginia. The house is now included in the Appomattox
Court House National Historic Park.
The McLean House is
identified on this U.S. Geological Survey topographic map (above, click to
enlarge) from the Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map
Collection (GRMC). The GRMC houses
thousands of these quadrant maps from around the United States. These maps are an excellent resource for
cartographic research and include relief lines, intermittent and permanent
bodies of water, roads, government boundaries, and prominent buildings and other
cultural features. Historic topographic maps and thematic maps about the Civil
War are also available in the GRMC.
The second satellite image
from Google Earth shows the McLean House and the surrounding buildings of the
park. The Web page, What Was There, features a photograph of the McLean House taken at
the surrender that can be “faded” to see the house today.
Maps from the GRMC may be
circulated for two weeks or longer. For
more information, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097.
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