Qualla: Battle of Amelia Springs https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/8/k/battle-of-amelia-springs-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Amelia Springs https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs Battle of Amelia Springs: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs/ Photo credit Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF., Public domain. The wagons were burning when Henry Davies's brigade rode out of Paineville on April 5, 1865. Behind them they left more than three hundred prisoners and the smoking remains of a Confederate army supply train. Among the documents the Union troopers had not bothered to save before setting the fire was the war diary of the Army of Northern Virginia. So much of the Confederacy's own record of itself, the daily ledger of orders and movements that had built the army Lee commanded, went up in the smoke that afternoon in a forgotten Amelia County crossroads.

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Image: Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF. | Public domain

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/8/k/battle-of-amelia-springs-wp/dq8k-battle-of-amelia-springs-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Amelia Springs: Three Days Out of Petersburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs/ Photo credit Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF., Public domain. Lee's army had evacuated Petersburg and Richmond on the night of April 2-3, 1865, after the Union breakthrough at the Third Battle of Petersburg. The four columns of the Army of Northern Virginia were supposed to converge at Amelia Court House and resupply from rations Lee had or...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/8/k/battle-of-amelia-springs-wp/dq8k-battle-of-amelia-springs-three-days-out-of-petersburg.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Amelia Springs: Davies at Paineville https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs/ Photo credit Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF., Public domain. On the afternoon of April 5, Union Brigadier General Henry E. Davies Jr. took his cavalry brigade through Amelia Springs and swung north to Paineville, about four miles out of Jetersville. There he found a Confederate army wagon train, mostly headquarters baggage. His troopers at...

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Image: Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF. | Public domain

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/8/k/battle-of-amelia-springs-wp/dq8k-battle-of-amelia-springs-davies-at-paineville.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Amelia Springs: Fitzhugh Lee Counterattacks https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs/ Photo credit Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF., Public domain. When word of the disaster at Paineville reached Robert E. Lee, he dispatched two divisions of his nephew Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, joined by Brigadier General Martin Gary's brigade, to chase Davies down. The Confederate counterattack caught Davies's brigade returning south toward J...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/8/k/battle-of-amelia-springs-wp/dq8k-battle-of-amelia-springs-fitzhugh-lee-counterattacks.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Amelia Springs: Gordon's Rear Guard https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs/ Photo credit Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF., Public domain. After dark on April 5 and into the morning of April 6, Union divisions under Nelson A. Miles and Gershom Mott collided with the Confederate rear guard near Amelia Springs. Major General John B. Gordon, commanding the Confederate Second Corps, was running the army's tail. His men,...

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Image: Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF. | Public domain

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/8/k/battle-of-amelia-springs-wp/dq8k-battle-of-amelia-springs-gordons-rear-guard.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Amelia Springs: What the Springs Held https://qualla.com/battle-of-amelia-springs/ Photo credit Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF., Public domain. Amelia Springs had been a resort. Antebellum Virginians, like spa-goers elsewhere in nineteenth-century America, had traveled there for the mineral waters, believing in their curative properties. By April 1865 the resort was already declining. The war found it almost by accident,...

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