A historical variant spelling of Appomattox, a site in Virginia significant to American Civil War history.
From Powhatan (Algonquian language group) origins. The variant spellings (appomattoc, appomattox) reflect how English speakers recorded the indigenous place name across different documents.
The many spellings of this place name (Appomattoc, Appomattox, Appomatic) remind us that written history often depends on whoever was doing the writing and their spelling choices—sometimes the same place got recorded three different ways!
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