Zebulon Vance

Zebulon Vance was a man who was democratic. He was born in a place called Buncombe County, North Carolina. He was educated at a school known as Washington College this is in Salem, Tennessee. As he entered the politics as a Whig he was actually elected to be the solicitor of a county called Buncombe he served in the national House of Representatives from December 1858 to March 1861. From 1862 until the close of the war he was the Governor of the state. From 1879 uintil his death he served in the U.S. Senate where he was a popular man and a effective man who watched people between the North and the South to make sure nothing serious went on. He loss one of his eyes from all of the hardwork he did not really care about his health. April 14, 1894, and after all of the services that went on in the Senate Chamber he was buried in Asheville, North Carolina.


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Appomattox

On April 9, the remainings of John Brown Gordon’s military and Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry formed a line of battle at what is called the Appomattox Court House. A guy named Robert E. Lee tryed to make one more attempt to escape the what you call the Union pincers and reach his things at Lynchburg. The cenofederates advanced which gained ground against Sheridan's cavalary at dawn and this such act made Lee's army surrounded on three sides. This very act made Lee give up to Grant on the date April 9. This was actually the last conflict that happened in Virginia. The results were that the union took the victory.

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