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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27MU_double-bridges_Rice-VA.html
Late in the afternoon of April 6, 1865, the Confederate wagon train that had passed Holt's Corner and then turned south at James S. Lockett's farm toward Rice's Station began crossing the two bridges here, across Little Sailor's Creek and Big Sail…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27A5_holts-corner_Rice-VA.html
Shortly before noon on April 6, 1865, elements of Union Gen. George Crook's cavalry division attacked Confederate Gen. Richard H. Anderson's infantry corps as it marched through this intersection. While most of the Army of Northern Virginia contin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10V1_victory-or-death_Rice-VA.html
The 18th Georgia Battalion, acting as a heavy artillery unit was originally formed in 1802 and served at the coastal defenses around Charleston, South Carolina. Moved to Virginia in May of 1864, it guarded the Richmond & Danville Railroad Bridge o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10V0_crossing-little-sailors-creek_Rice-VA.html
"We found a stream of muddy water a dozen feet wide..."
"The colonel's clear voice sounded ?ATTENTION'....Descending the hill; ?Prepare to cross a marsh!' was passed along the line....Three or four minutes later we found ourselves confronted by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10UZ_assaulting-the-confederate-battle-line_Rice-VA.html
"The men pressed forward, holding their fire with wonderful self control till they were in plain site of the enemy almost face to face."
As the Federal troops realigned themselves after the creek crossing, and because of the shorter distance Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10UX_the-final-clash-with-fate-against-them_Rice-VA.html
"There goes a chivalrous fellow. Let's give him three cheers."
Near this site were positioned Confederate forces commanded by General Joseph B. Kershaw. They were mainly from Mississippi and Georgia and were slightly dug in behind hastily built…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKXU_action-at-high-bridge_Rice-VA.html
During the night of 6-7 April 1865, part of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the South Side Railroad's High Bridge three miles north of here as Union armies under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant pursued closely. After the last Conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKXT_battle-of-sailors-creek_Rice-VA.html
Six miles north took place the battle of Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865. Lee's army, retreating westward from Amelia Courthouse to Farmville by way of Deatonsville, was attacked by Sheridan, who surrounded Ewell's Corps. After a fierce action the C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7MT_rices-depot_Rice-VA.html
Gen. James Longstreet's corps, leading the Confederate retreat westward, reached Rice's Depot along the South Side Railroad and entrenched on April 6, 1865, while the Battle of Sailor's Creek raged to the east. Here Longstreet guarded the road fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7ML_cavalry-battle-at-high-bridge_Rice-VA.html
Just northeast of here, on the afternoon of April 6, 1865, a Union detachment tried and failed to burn High Bridge - where the South Side Railroad crossed the Appomattox River - and restrict the Confederate retreat to the south side of the river. …