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

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: an artillery chain with a remaining piece of leather, an artillery harness buckle, an artillery horse rosette, a section of an artillery driver saddle cantle, an artillery chisel, an artillery limber chest handle, a limber lock key, an artillery horseshoe, and a gun carriage hook.

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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