Nottoway River Crossings
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showbizkid
N 36° 53.921 W 077° 24.032
18S E 286109 N 4086324
This marker notes several important military crossings of the Nottoway River in this area during both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. This marker is located right next to the U.S. Highway 301 bridge over the river and was placed in 2003.
Waymark Code: WMKEC
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2006
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The marker pretty much tells the story here:
NOTTOWAY RIVER CROSSINGSSeveral 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.