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A portion of the Union army encountered Lee's rearguard as the Southerners completed their night march around Grant's troops. This was also the scene of an April 5 engagement as Union cavalry returned from destroying a Confederate wagon train at P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDBV_mrs-samantha-jane-neil_Amelia-Court-House-VA.html
Amelia County is largely indebted to one woman for bringing formal education and religion to African Americans after the Civil War. In 1865 Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil left her home in Pennsylvania to search for her husband's body. He had been a Union…
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Noted lawyer and statesman William Branch Giles was born 12 Aug. 1762 in Amelia County and educated at Hampden-Sydney College, Princeton, and the College of William and Mary. Giles served Virginia in the United States House of Representatives (179…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCI7_marion-harland_Amelia-Court-House-VA.html
Born Mary Virginia Hawes at Dennisville about eight miles south, Harland was a prolific author, producing a syndicated newspaper column for women, many short stories, 25 novels, 25 volumes on domestic life, and 12 books on travel, biography, and V…
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(Obverse)Nottoway CountyArea 310 Square MilesFormed in 1788 from Amelia, and named for an Indian tribe. Tarleton passed through this county in 1781. Here lived William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia 1910-14. (Reverse)Amelia CountyArea 371 Sq…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCEF_jetersville_Jetersville-VA.html
Lee found Union cavalry and infantry across his line of retreat at this station on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Rather than attacking the entrenched Federals, he chose to change direction and begin a night march toward Farmville where ratio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCE4_lees-retreat_Amelia-Court-House-VA.html
Lee's army, retreating toward Danville, reached this place, April 4-5, 1865, only to find that the supplies ordered here had gone on to Richmond. The famished soldiers were forced to halt to forage. The result was that Lee, when he resumed the mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCE3_lamkins-battery_Amelia-Court-House-VA.html
This mortar belonged to the battery cammanded by Captain J.N. Lamkin. On July 30, 1864, at the "Crater", the battery helped check the Union advance until Mahone came up. Four mortars were captured near Flat Creek in Lee's Retreat, April 2, 1865. O…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCE1_amelia-court-house_Amelia-Court-House-VA.html
General Lee ordered all columns of his army from the Richmond and Petersburg trenches to rendezvous at this village on the Richmond & Danville Railroad. Here he hoped to obtain rations before continuing the march to North Carolina to join General …
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Erected in memory ofW. R. Turner, historianof Blackstone, Virginia,for his work to preservethe historic battlefieldsand routes ofGeneral Robert E. Lee'sretreat Centennial Year1961 Piedmont AreaExplorer ScoutsB.S.A. Erected by BlackstoneVi…
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