Appomattox

This is my final full day in Virginia. Its been fun, but it will be good to be home. I'm not good at functioning on my own, but I've done reasonably well here. I left the end of the Civil War for my final day.

So there was a many month siege outside of Petersburg. Grant kept spreading out his line, which cause Lee to have to stretch his out. Lee didn't have as many men, though, so his line just got thinner and thinner. It finally broke and that was the beginning of the end.

Lee headed east because its the only direction available to him. There were a series of skirmishes. Five Forks and Saylors Creek were a couple I stopped at.

Saylors Creek was a state park rather than a part of the national parks. It showed. The people giving information were just kind of hanging out and their map was good except east was west and west was east.

The South was running out of everything - food, men, ammunition. I drove about an hour to get to Appomattox, so they must have marched for about a week. I had been to Appomattox before, so some of it was a rerun. The McLean house where Lee surrendered is rebuilt, so I didn't think it would be that cool, but it looked just like the paintings so it turned out pretty cool. They had those paintings on display. I later saw "No Photgraphy" after I got in about a million great pictures. It also was fun the explore the area around the village, to see how surrounded the really were.

So back to Richmond for my final night and one more round of Waffle House.