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Nottoway River Crossings UM16 |
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 Picture courtesy of David Eck
Several important river crossings took place over the Nottoway River during two wars. Revolutionary War calvary commander Lt. Col. John Graves Simcoe lead British forces across the river in this area on 11 May 1781, as he rode south to join Gen. Charles Cornwallis. In mid May, Cornwallis marched north from North Carolina, crossed the Nottoway River nearby, and reached Peters- burg on 20 May. During the Civil War, at the end of Gen. James H. Wilson’s and Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz’s railroad raids, a portion of Gen. Wilson’s forces crossed the river nearby on 28 June 1864, on their way back to Union lines near Petersburg.
Department of Historic Resources - 2003
U.S. Highway 301 North. Southampton County Virginia.
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