Lee's wagon trains are lost at Sailor's Creek
April 6, 1865, Sailor's Creek, Virginia.
- Date
- April 6, 1865
- Where
- Sailor's Creek, Virginia
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 164 of 174
The army was heading for Rice's Station on the South Side Railroad to resupply, with its long wagon trains exposed on a single road. The double bridges over Little and Big Sailor's Creek broke down, stranding hundreds of wagons. The greater part of the trains was destroyed, and Confederate losses were about 8,000 men.
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