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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC15_derwent_Powhatan-VA.html
In the summer of 1865, Robert E. Lee and his family resided here at Derwent. Lee had reunited with his wife and children in a rented house in Richmond after he surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9. Financi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC12_lees-final-bivouac_Powhatan-VA.html
General Lee, on his journey to Richmond from Appomattox, stopped at Winsor, his brother's farm, to spend the night. But as the house was crowded, he pitched his tent here, the last night he spent under canvas. He took brekfast with the Gilliams, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC0Z_lees-last-camp_Powhatan-VA.html
Here Robert E. Lee, riding from Appomattox to Richmond to join his family, pitched his tent for the last time on April 14, 1865. He stopped here to visit his brother, Charles Carter Lee, who lived nearby at Windsor. Not wishing to incommode his br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC0Y_lees-last-bivouac_Powhatan-VA.html
Although Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the formal surrender ceremonies for his cavalry, artillery, and infantry occurred over the next three days. Lee did not attend. On Ap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC0W_huguenot-springs-confederate-cemetery_Midlothian-VA.html
Approximately 250 unidentified Confederate soldiers, who died at nearby Huguenot Springs Confederate Hospital, are buried in unmarked graves about a mile and a half southwest of here. Burial records have never been located. The former Huguenot Spr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC0V_huguenot-springs_Midlothian-VA.html
In 1862, the spa at Huguenot Springs Hotel became a convalescent hospital for Confederate soldiers. Trains brought patients from Richmond hospitals to Robious Station on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, where they were transferred to wagons for…