Crossword-Solution: APPOMATTOX
We have 10 clues for the answer “APPOMATTOX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Courthouse in the news, April 9, 1865. | 1 answer |
| Famed Virginia town | 1 answer |
| Historic Civil War town | 1 answer |
| Site of Lee's surrender | 1 answer |
| Virginia county or its seat | 1 answer |
| Virginia town near where Lee surrendered | 1 answer |
| Where Lee surrendered | 1 answer |
| JAMES River tributary | 2 answers |
| Virginia river | 11 answers |
| AMERICAN river | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APPOMATTOX (5)
What else is it today? The problem, How to maintain the institution of chattel slavery, ceased to be at Appomattox; the problem, How to maintain the social, industrial, and civic inferiority of the descendants of chattel slaves, succeeded it, and is the race problem of the South at the present time.
The case is, rather, as when--with certainly an intervening change of apparel--Pompey fights Caesar at both Dyrrachium and Pharsalus, or as when General Grant successively encounters General Lee at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Appomattox.
THE BURIAL OF THE GUNS Lee surrendered the remnant of his army at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, and yet a couple of days later the old Colonel’s battery lay intrenched right in the mountain-pass where it had halted three days before.
Elisha Gurrey's boarding-house, with its steel engraving of Grant at Appomattox, its basket of stereoscopic views, and its mysterious stains on the gritty carpet.
Johnson, he said, had always been treated with such contempt and ignored socially by the members of the old families and slave aristocracy of the South that his resentment against them was vindictive, and so after the surrender at Appomattox he was constantly proclaiming "Treason is odious and must be punished." He also wanted and, in fact, insisted upon ignoring Grant's parole to the Confederate officers, in order that they might be tried for treason.
Quotes with APPOMATTOX (2)
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1957–2009).