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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7M2_holts-corner_Rice-VA.html
While passing through this intersection, the Confederate column was attacked by Union cavalry. Consequently, part of Lee's army, and the main wagon train, turned north onto the Jamestown Road while the main portion continued straight ahead to Rice…
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(Front):Battles of Sailors CreekApril 6, 1865
"My God! Has the army been dissolved?"General R. E. Lee
Hillsman's Farm US 442 CS 3400Marshall's Crossroads US 172 CS 2600Lockett's Farm (Double Bridges) US 536 CS 1700
Totals include killed, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LZ_hillsman-house_Jetersville-VA.html
Union forces assembled along this ridge while Confederate troops prepared on the opposite slope. Federal forces crossed Little Sailor's Creek for a fierce battle which compelled many Southerners to surrender. The house served as a hospital for bot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LY_marshalls-crossroads_Rice-VA.html
Union cavalry found Confederate infantry posted here along the road to Rice's Depot. While others fought along Little Sailor's Creek at Hillsman's farm, the horse soldiers attacked this portion of Lee's army which eventually withdrew from the fiel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LX_ewells-line-of-defense_Rice-VA.html
On Thursday, April 6, 1865, this high ground above Little Sailor's Creek was protected by troops from the Richmond fortifications under Confederate General Richard S. Ewell. They hurriedly threw up a line of breastworks consisting of fence rails a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MB_overton-hillsman-house_Jetersville-VA.html
As night began to fall here on, April 6, 1865, the hard fought battles of Little Sailor's Creek and the crossroads near the Marshall Farm draw to a close. Federal surgeons work by the little natural light that's still available. They are inside th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KZ_lees-retreat_Jetersville-VA.html
Three miles north is Amelia Springs, once a noted summer resort. There Lee, checked by Sheridan at Jetersville and forced to detour, spent the night of April 5-6, 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KY_lees-retreat_Jetersville-VA.html
From here Union cavalry moved north on April 5, 1865 to ascertain Lee's whereabouts. On the morning of April 6, the Second, Fifth and Sixth corps of Grant's army advanced from Jetersville toward Amelia Courthouse to attack Lee.
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Sheridan reached here on April 4, 1865 with cavalry and the Fifth Corps, and entrenched. He was thus squarely across Lee's line of retreat to Danville. On April 5, Grant and Meade arrived from the east with the Second Corps and the Sixth Corps.
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After evacuating Petersburg and Richmond on 2-3 Apr. 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia retreated west to Amelia Court House to obtain supplies and then turn south to North Carolina. On 6 Apr., however, when Maj. Gen. Philip H. S…