Zebulon+Vance

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=__Appomattox Courthouse__= On April, John Broun Gordon's corps and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry formed line of battle at Appottox Courthouse. General Robert E. Lee determinded to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union pincers and reach his supplies at Lynchburg. At dawn the Confederates advanced, intially gaining ground against Sheridan's cavalry. The arrival of Union infantry, however, stopped the advance in its tracks. Lee's army was now surrounded on 3 sides. Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9. This was the final engagment of the war in VA.
 * Zebulon Vance was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on the 13th of May 1830. He went to school at Wasington College, at Salem, Tennessee, and the University of North Carolina. He was part of the Whig party and elected solicitor of Buncombe county and a member of the state House of Commons in 1854. He served in the House of Representatives from December 1858 until March 3, 1861. He died in Asheville, North Carolina in on April 14, 1894.**=====

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