Appomattox

place in Virginia, from an eccentric spelling of plural of Appomattoc, name of a local subgroup of the Powhatan (Algonquian) confederacy (first attested as Apamatic, 1607). It was the site of last battle for the Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) in the American Civil War and of Lee's surrender to Grant (in Wilmer McLean's house) on April 9, 1865.