this is the one known as the battle at appotomax station. the only battle fought between a con californiavy unit and a confederate -- the next morning lee sends out more troops to be able to take those trains because he believes the infantry men, the troops he has can overtake a cavalry unit in the area and get back to their supply trains. 597:30 in the morning another battle glins in the area when lee fairly soon discovers that general ord has arrived overnight with reinforcements and they have effectively cut off lee's approach back here to his supply trains. that battle lasts only to about 10:30 ton the morning when general lee sends his final message to general grant telling him he is now ready to surrender his army. you will notice here high bridge, this was going from farmville to appotomax. it crossed the appotomax river that you can see here. this photo was taken in august of 1865 when they were doing final repairs to the bridge after the war. we are going to go into the gallery and show you some of the items that we do have. some of

this is the one known as the battle at appotomax station. the only battle fought between a con californiavy unit and a confederate -- the next morning lee sends out more troops to be able to take those trains because he believes the infantry men, the troops he has can overtake a cavalry unit in the area and get back to their supply trains. 597:30 in the morning another battle glins in the area when lee fairly soon discovers that general ord has arrived overnight with reinforcements and they have effectively cut off lee's approach back here to his supply trains. that battle lasts only to about 10:30 ton the morning when general lee sends his final message to general grant telling him he is now ready to surrender his army. you will notice here high bridge, this was going from farmville to appotomax. it crossed the appotomax river that you can see here. this photo was taken in august of 1865 when they were doing final repairs to the bridge after the war. we are going to go into the gallery and show you some of the items that we do have. some of

courthouses and moved the county seat down to where it exists today near that railroad station in the town of appotomax. this gallery focuses on the confederate veterans. many of them were wounded during the war action and lost limbs. some of them had prosthetic limbs like this made although when this was given to us, the gentleman said he wasn't real comfortable with it and he didn't wear it often. his grandkids probably played with it more than he ever wore it. another examples of a veteran's effects that we have is this hat that was worn by sergeant ducat. you can see that there is a hole in it. and he put this patch on it himself. and there is a photograph of him wearing that with where the bullet grazed him during a battle. it came that close to ending his life. but it took out a big chunk of his hat. when the men came back from the war, they were significantly changed. a lot of times those boys had not been outside of their own county. now they've travelled to different states and they have seen the horrific effects of the war. a lot of them came back with physical wounds such as you see here wit