Cut off in the rear of Lee's retreating army at Sailor's Creek in Prince Edward County, Virginia, General Richard S. Ewell's inflicted heavy casualties on the Second and Sixth Union corps but was forced in the end to surrender. Around six thousand men became prisoners, including Ewell, along with four of his division and brigade commanders. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion Against the United States of America (Philadelphia, PA: A. Winch, 1867), 102.
Benson J. Lossing, The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America (Hartford, CT: T. Belnap, 1874), 554.
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