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Title
Map of Poindexter House 1863
Description
Stop 5: Poindexter House / Hart's Battery / Hampton's Charge
After the Battle of Trevilian Station began nearby on June 11, 1864, the fighting along the Fredericksburg Stage Road grew serious and bloody. Constrained by heavy woods, the fighting resembled an infantry battle more than a cavalry engagement, as the troopers fought dismounted. Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton heard a commotion in his rear as Union Gen. George A. Custer’s fought to capture Hampton's wagons near Trevilian Station, and ordered Gen. Matthew C. Butler and Col. Gilbert J. Wright to withdraw their brigades to a defensive position near Netherland Tavern.
Col. William Sackett led his 9th New York Cavalry in a dismounted attack near here to drive Butler and Wright south toward Trevilian Station. The popular Sackett received a mortal wound, died on June 14, and was buried in the Poindexter farmyard. His regiment sustained heavy losses but succeeded in its mission.
The Union assaults exposed Hampton’s horse artillery to capture. In response, Hampton personally led the 6th South Carolina Cavalry's Cadet Company from the Citadel, the state military academy, in a charge astride his great war-horse Butler. The Confederate commander and a Union officer emptied their pistols at each other, without effect, in the close combat for Capt. James Hart's battery, but Hampton killed two other Union cavalrymen and saved the guns. Soon after, a hush fell over the battlefield while both sides regrouped and prepared for the next phase of the fight.
Continue South on Rt. 613/Oakland Road for less than one mile. On the left you will see the reconstructed Netherland Tavern. Carefully turn left into the drive and park at the VCWT marker there.
After the Battle of Trevilian Station began nearby on June 11, 1864, the fighting along the Fredericksburg Stage Road grew serious and bloody. Constrained by heavy woods, the fighting resembled an infantry battle more than a cavalry engagement, as the troopers fought dismounted. Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton heard a commotion in his rear as Union Gen. George A. Custer’s fought to capture Hampton's wagons near Trevilian Station, and ordered Gen. Matthew C. Butler and Col. Gilbert J. Wright to withdraw their brigades to a defensive position near Netherland Tavern.
Col. William Sackett led his 9th New York Cavalry in a dismounted attack near here to drive Butler and Wright south toward Trevilian Station. The popular Sackett received a mortal wound, died on June 14, and was buried in the Poindexter farmyard. His regiment sustained heavy losses but succeeded in its mission.
The Union assaults exposed Hampton’s horse artillery to capture. In response, Hampton personally led the 6th South Carolina Cavalry's Cadet Company from the Citadel, the state military academy, in a charge astride his great war-horse Butler. The Confederate commander and a Union officer emptied their pistols at each other, without effect, in the close combat for Capt. James Hart's battery, but Hampton killed two other Union cavalrymen and saved the guns. Soon after, a hush fell over the battlefield while both sides regrouped and prepared for the next phase of the fight.
Continue South on Rt. 613/Oakland Road for less than one mile. On the left you will see the reconstructed Netherland Tavern. Carefully turn left into the drive and park at the VCWT marker there.
Source
Library of Congress, 1863 Hotchkiss Map of Louisa County