The Appomattox statue stands at the corner of Washington and Prince Streets, at the spot where Alexandria's Confederate soldiers mustered on May 24, 1861 before marching off to war. The bronze figure of a lone Confederate infantryman, head bowed, was installed in 1889 by the Robert E. Lee Camp of the United Confederate Veterans.
Unlike many Confederate monuments erected during the Jim Crow era as assertions of white supremacy, the Appomattox statue was placed early, in a site with direct historical significance, and its posture of defeat rather than triumph has made its historical interpretation somewhat different from later monuments. The city has added interpretive markers explaining the full context. It sits in an otherwise quiet residential intersection, easy to miss, which makes the encounter with it more abrupt when you do find it.