| Virginia (Amelia County), Amelia Court House — Lamkin’s Battery |
| | 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. One of them blew up in saluting the remains of Jefferson Davis when bought through Amelia Court House.
Placed by the Amelia Chapter of the U.D.C. 1940 — Map (db m18873) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Amelia Court House — Lee's Retreat — Amelia Court House — April 4-5, 1865 |
| | 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 Joseph Johnston's army.
Next Stop
Jetersville
7.4 miles — Map (db m18871) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Amelia Court House — M 11 — Lee's Retreat |
| | 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 march in the afternoon of April 5, found that Sheridan was at Jetersville blocking the way south. — Map (db m18874) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Amelia Court House — M 28 — Marion Harland — (12 Dec. 1830-3 June, 1922) |
| | 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 Virginia history. Her Common Sense in the Household (1871) was the best-selling cookbook in America for more than fifty years, until the Fannie Farmer Cookbook and the Settlement Cookbook became popular after World War I. — Map (db m19029) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Amelia Court House — 10 — Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil — Amelia Court House, Virginia — Amelia County |
| | 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 army officer and had died somewhere in Amelia County only a few days before Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House. Though she never found her husband’s remains, she did discover a serious need for education for . . . — Map (db m20239) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Amelia Court House — M 31 — William Branch Giles |
| | 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 (1790-1798 and 1801-1803) and in the U.S. Senate (1804-1815), where he was a chief Republican ally of Thomas Jefferson during the Republican and Federalist party debates of that era. Giles was elected governor by the General Assembly in 1827 and served . . . — Map (db m19039) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — M 12 — Lee's Retreat |
| | Near here Lee, moving south toward Danville, in the afternoon of April 5, 1865 found the road blocked by Sheridan. He then turned westward by way of Amelia Springs, hoping to reach the Southside (Norfolk and Western) Railroad. — Map (db m10215) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — M 13 — Lee's Retreat |
| | 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. Sheridan's Union cavalry blocked his escape route on the Richmond and Danville R.R., Lee led his army west toward Farmville. Near here Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac, learned of Lee's new course. He ordered his army to . . . — Map (db m10216) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — M 14 — Lee's Retreat |
| | 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. — Map (db m10217) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — M 15 — Lee's Retreat |
| | 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. — Map (db m10218) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — M 19 — Lee's Retreat |
| | 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. — Map (db m10219) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — Lee's Retreat — Jetersville — April 5, 1865 |
| | 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 rations awaited the army.
Next Stop
Amelia Springs
3.3 miles — Map (db m18886) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — Z 284 — Nottoway County / Amelia County |
| | (Front): Nottoway County Area 310 Square Miles Formed 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) Formed in 1734 from Prince George and Brunswick, and named for Princess Amelia, daughter of King George II. William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia 1827-30, lived in this county. (Back): Amelia County 371 Square Miles Formed in 1734 from Prince . . . — Map (db m10220) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Jetersville — Z 48 — Nottoway County / Amelia County |
| | (Obverse)
Nottoway County
Area 310 Square Miles
Formed 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 County
Area 371 Square Miles
Formed in 1734 from Prince George and Brunswick, and named for Princess Amelia, daughter of King George II. William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia 1827-30, lived in this county. — Map (db m18925) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Mannboro — OL 10 — Lee’s Retreat |
| | Here Custer, commanding advance guard of an Army of the Potomac, struck and drove back Fitz Lee, left flank guard of Army of Northern Virginia, April 3, 1865. — Map (db m6156) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Mannboro — Lee's Retreat — Namozine Church |
| | April 3, 1865 As Lee's men continued their morning march toward Ameila Court House, cavalries skirmished around this church. Forced to withdraw, the armies continued a running battle that ended near Deep Creek. Namozine Church also served as a hospital for both armies. Next Stop Amelia Court House 19.7 miles. — Map (db m6071) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Mannboro — Namozine Church — Pursuit Cathces Up — Lee’s Retreat |
| | When Gen. Robert E. Lee evacuated the Army of Northern Virginia from Petersburg and Richmond on April 2-3, 1865, he ordered the army’s wings to unite at Amelia Court House, where trains would meet them with food and other supplies. The army would then march south to North Carolina and join forces with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s command. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, on the other hand, pursued Lee on two routes: directly in his wake and on parallel roads to the south, to prevent his escape into North . . . — Map (db m6049) |
| Virginia (Amelia County), Rice — M-26 — Battle of Sailors (Sayler's) Creek |
| | [Obverse]:
This is the Hillsman House, used by the Unionists as a hospital in the engagement of April 6, 1865. From the west side of the creek the Confederates charged and broke through the Union infantry, but were stopped by the batteries along the hillside here. A mass surrender followed, including a corps commander, Gen. R. S. Ewell, several other generals, many colonels, about 7000 rank and file, and several hundred wagons. It was the largest unstipulated surrender of the . . . — Map (db m8284) |
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