Clifton was the home of Joseph Crute and his family in 1865. Early on April 8, part of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia marched by the house, followed soon by a pursuing Union army corps. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant spent that night in the house, . . . — — Map (db m271223) HM
Generals Grant and Meade used this location for their headquarters during the night. Grant stayed in the house and it was here that he received Lee’s second letter suggesting a peace meeting. He left the next morning for Appomattox Court House. . . . — — Map (db m11866) HM
Part of Lee’s army passed here, April 8, 1865, retreating westward. The second (Humphrey’s) Corps of Grant’s army passed, in pursuit, in the afternoon of the same day. Grant spent the night here, receiving early in the morning of April 9 a note from . . . — — Map (db m11864) HM
At this point, General Lee’s army would change its line of march: Gordon’s corps now took the lead while Longstreet’s corps became the rearguard. They would continue to be pursued by Union army corps under Generals Humphreys and Wright.
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Four miles west is the site of New Store Village, in early times an important stop on the stage coach road between Richmond and Lynchburg. Philip Watkins McKinney, governor of Virginia 1890-1894, was born here in 1832. Peter Francisco, Revolutionary . . . — — Map (db m29166) HM
