African Americans Helping the Union

G.K. Warren - Major-General of Volunteers

Vaughan Road, Dinwiddie, VA

March 29, 1865

My column is just passing the junction of the stage road with the Vaughan road. No sign of enemy. I have an old negro who has been hiding around in the woods near Crawford Church. He says he saw a man from Dinwiddie Court-House yesterday, and there were no troops there. I cannot rely much upon what he says. I send this up the Vaughan road by Captain Winslow with an escort of ten men.
Additional Details

• African Americans Involved: 1
• Army: Union
• Source Location: Near Vaughan Road, Dinwiddie, VA
• Source Recipient: Major-General A.S. Webb

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Dinwiddie Court House

Conscription, Confederate (army or labor)

Rob N. West - Colonel

Dinwiddie Court House, VA

Sept. 8, 1864

According to their accounts, the farmers are thrashing out their grain with all possible dispatch, and hurrying it and their prime negroes beyond Dinwiddie Court-House.
Additional Details

• Army: Confederate
• Source Location: In the Field
• Source Recipient: Captain M.J. Asch

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Sappony Church, VA

Capture/enslavement/re-enslavement of African Americans by Confederates

Sappony Church, VA

June 28, 1864

Defeated them at Sappony Church, about seven miles southwest of Dinwiddie Court-House; and at Ream's our forces attacked them in front and near, putting them utterly to rout, and making important captures, the most valuable of which consists of some hundreds of negroes, curried away from their owners by the Yankees on their expedition.

Additional Details

• African Americans Involved: Many
• African American Name: Not given
• Slave Owner Name: Not given
• Source Location: Richmond, VA
• Newspaper: Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 1, 1864 [Untitled] Page 1 Column 1

Fugitive Slaves/Runaways

Winfield Scott Hancock - Major-General

Near Boydton Plank Road, Dinwiddie, VA

Nov. 19, 1864

 

Eight deserters, two white men refugees, four negro men, and one woman came into my lines during the night....The negroes state that the enemy are daily expecting a movement on our part. I send you a Richmond paper of the 18th, which they brought over. The Richmond paper states that when last heard from Sherman was at Jonesborough, on his road to Macon.
Additional Details

• African Americans Involved: 4
• Army: Union
• Source Location: Headquarters Second Army Corps
• Source Recipient: Major-General A.A. Humphreys

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Dinwiddie County, Virginia: A Brief History

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An Impressive and Meaningful Work. I am dearly impressed with the thought and collaboration it must have taken for a consensus from the author, the publisher, the artist, and the photographer. I believe this cover selection will be a winning choice on every level because it immediately addresses the universal reality of Dinwiddie County. The reality was, is, and will continue to be the people of Dinwiddie themselves, their common strife and absolute need for cooperation as they struggled to survive and grow inside a foreign and hostile environment. The generations did it for themselves, for one another and for each new generation to take their proper place in Dinwiddie history. They did it, not because it was easy to do. It was quite the opposite. They did it because it was the right thing to do. The people were sometimes knocked and sometimes slammed to their knees in the manifestation but the corporate strength of the people of Dinwiddie County created a lasting and loving tribute to their own past, their own present, and their own future.

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