Custer captures Lee's supply trains at Appomattox Station
April 8, 1865, Appomattox Station, Virginia.
- Date
- April 8, 1865
- Where
- Appomattox Station, Virginia
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 166 of 174
Union cavalry captured three trains sent from Lynchburg with rations and supplies for Lee's army and ran them east to Union lines. Lee surrendered the next day.
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