| Virginia (Prince George County), Burrowsville — K 215 — Hood's | | | Four miles north on James River. There, on January 3, 1781, Benedict Arnold, ascending the river, was fired on by cannon. On January 10, Arnold, returning, sent ashore there a force that was ambushed by George Rogers Clark. Fort Powhatan stood there in the War of 1812. — Map (db m11654) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Carson — Z 236 — Prince George County / Sussex County | | | (Obverse)
Prince George County
Area 294 Square Miles
Formed in 1702 from Charles City, and named for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne. The battles of the crater, 1864, and Fort Steadman, 1865, took place in this county.
(Reverse)
Sussex County
Area 515 Square Miles
Formed in 1753 from Surry, and named for an English county. Cornwallis passed through this county in 1781. — Map (db m18920) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Carson — UM 20 — Reams Station | | | Three miles north. There, the Union cavalryman, Kautz, in Wilson's raid, destroyed the station, June 22, 1864. Returning from Burkeville, Kautz reached there again June 29, and was joined by Wilson. Attacked by Hampton, Wilson and Kautz hastily retreated to Grant's army. Hancock, while destroying the Weldon railroad, was attacked at Reams Station by A. P. Hill and Hampton, August 25, 1864, and driven back to Grant's army. — Map (db m18864) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Garysville — K 214 — Flowerdew Hundred | | | Four miles north of here, Governor Sir George Yeardley established Flowerdew Hundred settlement by 1619. In 1621 a windmill was built there, the first one recorded in English North America. In response to English expansion in Powhatan lands, such an occurred at Flowerdew and elsewhere, paramount chief Opechancanough planned a coordinated assault on English settlements. The settlement survived the attack on 22 Mar. 1622 and inhabited through the 18th century. On 14-16 June 1864, U. S. Gen. . . . — Map (db m11659) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Garysville — K 212 — Powell's Creek | | | The creek nearby was named for Nathaniel Powell, acting Governor in 1619. Weyanoke Indian town was here. Nearby is the site of an old mill, known in the Revolution as Bland's, and later, Cocke's Mill. The British General Phillips passed here, May 1781. Here Grant's army, after crossing the James, turned towards Petersburg, June, 1864. — Map (db m11657) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Hopewell — Baylor’s Farm — Prelude to Petersburg — Lee Vs. Grant - The 1864 Campaign | | | Ordered to take Petersburg, Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith directed Gen. Edward W. Hinks’ division of African American soldiers to move from City Point toward the Cockade City. Hinks encountered unexpected Confederate resistance at Baylor’s Farm in the early morning hours of June 15, 1864. Southern cavalrymen under Gen. James Dearing, supported by the Petersburg Artillery, had fortified an already strong position by constructing earthworks across City Point Road. Smith then commanded . . . — Map (db m3745) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Hopewell — Evergreen | | | Evergreen
Birthplace of
Edmund Ruffin
Southerner
Father of Agricultural
Chemistry in America
1794-1865 — Map (db m25009) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Hopewell — K 323 — Richard Bland | | | Richard Bland (1710-1776), statesman and son of Richard and Elizabeth Randolph Bland of Jordan's Point, represented Prince George County in the House of Burgesses from 1742 to 1776. Between the 1750s and 1774, Bland played a leading role through newspaper articles, public letters, and pamphlets in arguing for Virginia control of its internal political and economic affairs. He was a Virginia delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses and elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in . . . — Map (db m18748) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Hopewell — Samuel Jordan of Jordan's Journey | | | Prior to 1619, Native Americans occupied this prominent peninsula along the upper James River, now called Jordan's Point. Arriving in Jamestown by 1610, Samuel Jordan served in July 1619 in Jamestown as a burgess for Charles City in the New World's oldest legislative assembly. A year later, he patented a 450-acre tract here known first as Beggar's Bush and later as Jordan's Journey. He survived the massive Powhatan Indian attack of March 1622 here at his plantation, a palisaded fort that . . . — Map (db m18749) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Hopewell — The Army of the James Monument | | | (north face)
Sacred
to the
Lamented Dead
of
The Army
of the James.
(south face)
Erected
by the direction of
Maj. Genl. B.F. Butler.
George Suckley.
Surg. U.S. Vol.
Colonel and Medical Director
H.B. Fowler.
Surg. 12. N.H. Vol.
Surgeon in charge of
Point of Rocks hospital.
Geo. Jones.
Hospital Chaplain
1865. — Map (db m24826) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — K 206 — Bailey's Creek | | | Bailey's Creek is named for Temperance Bailey (ca. 1617-ca. 1652), the daughter of Cicely Bailey and her first husband, whose name is unknown. When he died before Sept. 1620, Temperance inherited 200 acres of land near here at the age of three. Her mother remarried, first Samuel Jordan and then William Farrar, and resided with Temperance at Jordan's Point on the James River. Temperance Bailey married, first, John Browne, and then, by 1632, Richard Cocke, thereby becoming the progenitrix of the . . . — Map (db m17731) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — Confederate Soldiers of Prince George Co. | | | Erected by the Prince
George Chapter U.D.C.
to the memory of the
Confederate Soldiers
of Prince George Co.
that their heroic deeds,
sublime self-sacrifice
and undying devotion
to duty and country may
never be forgotten. — Map (db m23562) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — K 207 — History at Prince George Courthouse | | | Lord Cornwallis, going toward the James in pursuit of Lafayette, passed here, May 24, 1781. A part of Grant's army passed here on the way to Petersburg, June, 1864. The place was occupied by Union troops in 1864-65. — Map (db m17732) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — K 208 — Jordan's Point | | | Weyanoke Indians, part of the Powhatan Chiefdom, occupied Jordan's Point, around two miles north on the James River, when English colonists arrived in 1607. There, about 1620, Samuel Jordan settled; the place was called Jordan's Journey. By 1625, his widow Cicely and more than 50 other people resided there in some 15 households within a fortified compound. More than a century later, Richard Bland (1710-1776), member of the First Continental Congress, lived there. In the late 1980s and early . . . — Map (db m17733) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — Prince George Court House — Long, Hot March — Lee Vs. Grant - The 1864 Campaign | | | After crossing the James River, Gen. Gouverneur Warren’s Fifth Corps and Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Ninth Corps were ordered to move toward Petersburg. One of two primary routes of advance, Prince George Court House Road (Road 106) was used by more than 40,000 Union troops on June 15, 1864, a hot and dusty day. “For three hours of the march only one rest of 15 minutes was had,” a Union soldier wrote. When the Fifth Corp arrived at Prince George Court House, however, they were . . . — Map (db m3897) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — Prince George Court House — ”Destroy both those roads” — Wilson – Kautz Raid | | | In June 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant began to confine Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia within the Richmond and Petersburg defenses. The South Side R.R., connecting Petersburg and Lynchburg, and the Richmond and Danville R.R. supplied Lee’s men. The two lines formed a junction in Burkesville. Seeking to deny their use to Lee, Grant directed Gen. James H. Wilson’s 3,000-man cavalry division and Gen. August V. Kautz’s division (2,500 cavalrymen) with three batteries of regular U.S. . . . — Map (db m14771) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — The Beefsteak Raid — Wade Hampton’s Cattle Raid | | | As the summer of 1864 ended with Union Gen. U.S. Grant’s army still laying siege to Petersburg, Southern sources learned of a large herd of cattle being held at nearby Coggin’s Point on the James River. The cattle were grazing at “Beechwood,” the plantation of secessionist leader Edmund Ruffin. Knowing that this beef was to be issued to Northern soldiers, Confederate cavalry commander Gen. Wade Hampton received permission to capture them. Leaving their camps on Sept. 14, about 3,000 . . . — Map (db m14773) | | Virginia (Prince George County), Prince George — K 211 — The Cattle Raid | | | Just to the north of the road here, at old Sycamore Church, Wade Hampton, coming from the south, attacked the Union cavalry guarding Grant's beef cattle, September 16, 1864. The Unionists were overpowered; Hampton, rounding up 2,500 beeves, succeeded in escaping with them across the Blackwater and into Lee's lines. — Map (db m17734) |
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