RELIC GROUPING – CONFEDERATE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX

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Item Code: 173-4314

Near Red Oak Church at Appomattox, Confederates dismantled and destroyed as much equipment as possible to prevent confiscation by US Forces.  Battles and leaders Volume IV includes an engraving of these efforts, which continued through April 12th.

This grouping was acquired by The Horse Soldier in 1995 from a private museum at Appomattox as part of a large collection of artifacts from Lee’s surrender and the Battle of Appomattox Station and includes:

a crudely manufactured Confederate artillery chain, 2 brass horse artillery buckles, an artillery-specific claw hammer, a crudely made artillery tow hitch, a ring from a gun carriage, and a rare artillery mule shoe with “clampons” (protrusions) for climbing steep or muddy terrain.  All are housed in a black Riker display case with a glass front.

While most relics are remnants of a great fight, these stand in stark contrast as artifacts of the end of hostilities in Virginia. After years of terrible conflict, these items are a veritable snapshot of the moments when relative peace was becoming the new and accepted reality.

Any collection would benefit from the addition of these Appomattox surrender relics as a feature or a bookend to a collection spanning the Civil War.  [cm] [ph:L]

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