at keysville and then continue his march to danville. that's what he's looking for. as he moves though, through amelia springs and making his night march to farmville, he plans to go in this direction. but late on the evening of april 6th union cavalry, pulling hit-and-run tactics -- in other words, whenever they came to a cross road union cavalry attack line of march burn wagon trains, retreat and go to the next cross road that is basically what happens here at sailor's creek. i won't go into any detail on that. that's part of tomorrow's talk. keep in mind one thing we point out in our museum, the battle of sailor's creek, first of all spelled sailors not saylers like a lot of folks do. that's a post-war spelling. anyway, think of sailor's creek as three separate engagements all going on at the same time one is a mile from another and the other two are three miles from the third. the one the majority of the park owns is hilsman farm. here you can confederate general ewell fighting against general wright's sixth corps, anderson and wes l

-- re-intersects the railroad at keysville and continues his march to danville. that is what he is looking for. as he moves in making his night march to farmville he plans to go in this direction. late on the evening of april 6 , the union calvary pulling hit-and-run tactics. whenever they came to a crossroads, union cavalry would attack the confederate line of march, burn wagon trains, retreat and go to the next crossroads. that is basically what happens here at sailor's creek. that is part of tomorrow's talk. keep in mind one thing we point out in our museum. the battle for sailor's creek. it's spelled sailor's -- not sayler's. think of it as three three separate engagements, all going on at the same time. one is a mile from another. both of those are two miles from the third. there are three separate engagements. the warned that the majority of the park owns is the hillsman's farm ewell is fighting the sixth corps. this land on marshall's crossroad, which you can't really see here. at marshall's crossroad, that is where we recently acquired a large amount of p

and at keysville he would reintersect the railroad going to danville and then continue his march. so that is what brought him heading towards farmville. as he is heading along he comes to the area just past detenville and amelia springs. it's a 23-mile march from amelia springs to here. as he is moving along the confederate army is on a single roadway going across the rolling land of the piedmont or south side virginia here. as they come to road intersections union cavalry and union infantry will move uponly's wagon trains and his battle lines and there will be a hit-and-run tactics by federal cavalry which is now under general philip sheridan. that is what brings us to what happens on the evening of april 6 at sailor's creek. previous to the fighting at sailor's creek, the evening of the 6th there was another small engagement just between sailor's creek and farmville. that engagement was for high bridge. union troops stationed in burkeville realized that the confederate army is moving upon farmville at this time so general eoc ord sends a group of union infantry about 900 men of