APPOMATTOX STATION RELIC GROUPING – LAST CAVALRY FIGHT OF THE EASTERN THEATER

APPOMATTOX STATION RELIC GROUPING – LAST CAVALRY FIGHT OF THE EASTERN THEATER

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On the day preceding the surrender at Appomattox, the last cavalry engagement of the Eastern Theater took place at Appomattox Station. Identifying an opportunity to neutralize and capture an entire Confederate artillery brigade with mixed stragglers, Custer’s Cavalry Brigade launched a daring attack.  The first US units captured unguarded supply trains, and more units were fed into the station to contend with organized enemy resistance.  By night, after 4-5 hours of combat, Custer troopers broke the Confederate defenses – comprised most of artillery, dismounted artillerymen armed with muskets and rifle muskets, dismounted cavalry, and a large contingent of exhausted infantry stragglers who were pressed into the fight by Confederate general Lindsay Walker.  A running fight ensued, and Custer’s men stopped to establish a new line along the Lynchburg Road in the darkness.  Tragically, up to 32 of Custer’s men lost their lives outright and a further 18 died of wounds during the final full day of fighting in Virginia.  They did, however, capture over 1,000 prisoners, prevent supplies from reaching Lee’s army, destroyed the railroad tracks that drew Lee to the area initially, and provided more motivation for him to surrender on the 9th.

This grouping comes from the vicinity of the original Artillery Park and Wagon Train site near Appomattox and includes: a crude Confederate artillery chain, 3 US enlisted coat buttons, 3 US cuff buttons (one of which is a staff officer’s button), 6 Spencer bullets with partial cartridges, 5 fired artillery friction primers, 4 Minie balls, 4 Sharps bullets, and 5 pieces of a McClellan Saddle.

The battle of Appomattox Station was one of the final nails in the coffin of the Army of Northern Virginia and this grouping is a rare chance to collection relics from some of the final moments of the Civil War.   [cm] [ph:L]

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