i'm endeavor to collect supplies convenient to burkville. any come from the east of farmville know that burkville is just down the road. it was and still is a railroad junction. the same day lee also sent a message to lieutenant general james long street, one of his core commanders, said with the army concentrated at or near burkville, our communications north and south would be by the railroad that's the railroad that came through farmville recently. we also the opportunity to strike at grant should he pursue us rapidly or sherman before they could unite. i desire you make every preparation to accumulate all the supplies you can. general grant seems to be preparing to move out by his left flank and he is accumulating his army near the depot of supplies and apparently concentrating along that quarter. so with those two messages general lee now prophesies he was going to have to leave petersburg and eventually head toward north carolina. so again the appomattox campaign overlaps the petersburg campaign which is what tracy talked about at the

burkville became a major hospital center.ventually they can be placed on train cars and sent back to petersburg. one other thing of interest about this campaign overall, if you think about the fighting in virginia through the four years of war, most of this runs from washington to fredericksburg richmond to petersburg. most of which are cities that are on the fault line of the rivers. most of the fighting is going north and south. other than a cavalry raid or to, southside virginia saw very little action through the war until that last week. consequently, since the armies had not been here until that time folks were pretty much running blind. lee did not have good maps. he relied on his army. general lee would say where does this road leads? for the union army the same thing. they didn't have a lot of good maps of this area. to contraband inside the union army could tell you go on that land, that will be dear to -- that is exactly why i enjoy researching this area. the first book i wrote, which was out of print. i graduated.