Qualla: Battle of Appomattox Station https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/u/battle-of-appomattox-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Appomattox Station https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station Battle of Appomattox Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station/ Photo credit Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the afternoon of April 8, 1865, the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia had not eaten in nearly two days. Lee's surviving rations - cornmeal, salt pork, ammunition for guns that had no place to fire - were sitting on four trains at a small railroad stop called Appomattox Station, sent up from Lynchburg in answer to Lee's desperate order. Between those trains and the rest of Lee's army stood twenty-eight miles, the Union cavalry of Philip Sheridan, and the impatience of a brigadier general named George Armstrong Custer who could smell the end of the war. The Battle of Appomattox Station is one of the least famous engagements of the American Civil War. It was also, in the most literal sense, the last fight that decided the war's outcome.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/u/battle-of-appomattox-station-wp/dnxu-battle-of-appomattox-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Appomattox Station: A Long Ride West https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. After the disaster at Sailor's Creek on April 6 and the smaller fight at Cumberland Church on April 7, Lee's army was bleeding men with every mile. Roads were mud. Horses were dying in the traces. The Confederate supply system had been reduced to a single hope: trains from Lynchb...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/u/battle-of-appomattox-station-wp/dnxu-battle-of-appomattox-station-a-long-ride-west.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Appomattox Station: The Trains Surrender Themselves https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Between two and three in the afternoon, the lead troopers of Company K, 2nd New York Cavalry trotted into Appomattox Station and found four trains sitting unguarded - locomotives still hissing, cars half-unloaded with rations, ordnance, shoes, blankets, and medical supplies. The ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/u/battle-of-appomattox-station-wp/dnxu-battle-of-appomattox-station-walkers-artillery-park.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Appomattox Station: Moonlight at Nine O'Clock https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Custer was not a patient general. As darkness fell, he reorganized all three of his brigades for a single mass assault. At about 9 p.m., under the light of a full moon, the entire division charged together. The Confederate semicircle finally broke. Walker's gunners, with no infan...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/u/battle-of-appomattox-station-wp/dnxu-battle-of-appomattox-station-moonlight-at-nine-oclock.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Appomattox Station: The Last Door Closes https://qualla.com/battle-of-appomattox-station/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. After the breakthrough, Custer's troopers pushed east toward Appomattox Court House and ran into Confederate infantry pickets in the dark. They stopped, dug in, and formed a blocking line across the road to Lynchburg. Sheridan sent word back to Grant: he was certain the army coul...

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