Battle of Sailor's Creek
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The Battle of Sailor's Creek was fought on April 6, 1865, near Farmville, Virginia, as part of the Appomattox Campaign, near the end of the American Civil War. It was the last major engagement between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, and the Army of the Potomac, under the overall direction of Union General-in-Chief Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
A view of the battlefield as it appeared in 2010
Custer ready for his 3rd charge at Sailors Creek by Alfred Waud
Reenactors engage in a recreation of the battle, 2013
The Hillsman House and grounds, as they existed in 2012
Appomattox campaign
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The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to forces of the Union Army under the overall command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, marking the effective end of the war.
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, opposing commanders in the Appomattox campaign
Major General John B. Gordon
Major General John G. Parke
The Peacemakers by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1868, depicts the historic 1865 meeting on the River Queen