Last Campaign Images
Click any images below to begin a slide show of the Last Campaign:
- Confederate gunners repel attacks during the Last Campaign in Virginia 2015
- Union gun points toward the Confederate lines at Petersburg National Battlefield 2015
- Reenactment of the last battles of the Civil War at Appomattox, Va 2015
- The Fork Inn at Sutherland Station 2015
- Pursuing Federal troops caught up with the Confederates here at Namozine Church on April 3rd. 1865
- Confederate reenactors at rest at Appomattox Court House, Va 2015
- Union Cavalry at Appomattox 2015
- Tracks to the old Danville Railroad run parallel to the modern track today at Jetersville, Va 2015
- Union reenactors take the field at Sailor’s Creek in Rice, Va 2015
- The Appomattox River at High Bridge near Farmville, Va 2015
- Confederate cannoneers attempt a breakout at Appomattox, Va 2015
- Morning fog shrouds the battlefield at Sailor’s Creek.
- Union gunners at Appomattox, Va 2015
- Union Cavalry broke up the Confederate column here at Holt’s Corner. Two days later and one mile to the south the Battle of Sailor’s Creek occurred on April 8th 1865
- Confederate reenactors march in their last campaign at Sailor’s Creek
- Confederate reenactors huddle around a fire on a cold spring morning in Rice, Va 2015
- Morning fog in Rice , Virginia 2015
- Union reenactors form up alongside the Hillsman House at Sailor’s Creek 2015
- Sailor’s Creek 2015
- Confederates deliver their last volley at Sailor’s Creek
- The Hillsman House at Sailor’s Creek
- Confederate reenactors raise their rifles in a sign of capitulation at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Sailor’s Creek in Rice, Virginia 2015
- Hilly terrain of central Virginia witnessed the last battles of the Civil War
- The aftermath at Sailor’s Creek 2015
- Trees replanted on the Battlefield at Sailor’s Creek
- Union troops surround the Confederate forces at Appomattox in 2015
- Forest road at Sailor’s Creek Battlefield
- Appomattox Station, Virginia 2015
- Confederate reenactors wait for the Union attack
- Confederates burned High Bridge in their retreat but failed to prevent the Federals from crossing and securing a bridgehead in what became the Battle of High Bridge
- Old stone buttresses at High Bridge
- Confederate troops attacked up the Lynchburg Stage Road here at Appomattox Court House
- The last Confederate battle line at Appomattox 2015
- Union troops at Appomattox, Va 2015
- The Lynchburg Stage Road and Appomattox Court House
- Fence follows the old Lynchburg Stage Road at Appomattox Virginia
- The last battleground at Appomattox, Va 2015
- The centennial plaque marking Lee’s Last Bivouac
- The worn trail to Lee’s last bivouac
- Flags of the seceding southern states fly over the Museum of the Confederacy in Appomattox, Va 2015
- Union Cavalry played an enormous role in bringing the war to a close in Virginia. Riding ahead and blocking the Rebel escape routes south the mounted Federals sealed the fate of the Confederacy
- The old Lynchburg Stage Road leads to Appomattox Court House and the end of the war in Virginia – 2015
Beautiful pictures and a wonderful story. You really make the story personal, as if we were one of the soldiers actively engaged in the struggle. You can feel the sadness and anguish and desperation the confederates must have felt, and the disbelief and jubilation of the Union. Thank you for documenting this incredible journey for us.
Tim – thank you for your help out there!