Around the home of James S. Lockett, desperate fighting occurred near sundown on April 6, 1865, when the Union corps commanded by Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys almost overwhelmed Gen. John B. Gordon’s Confederate corps. Gordon’s corps served as the rear guard for the Army of Northern Virginia and also protected the Confederate wagon train. To avoid fighting near the Hillsman House, the train was rerouted first to the northwest and then south on this road, but at the bottom of the hill, where double bridges crossed Little Sailor’s Creek and Big Sailor’s Creek, the wagon train bogged down. Humphreys first drove Gordon from his position here and then pressed him across the creek. By the end of the battle, as the sun was setting, the Confederates had lost some 1,700 men, most of them as prisoners, to the Federals’ 536, and the remnant of Gordon’s corps continued its march to Farmville while about 300 wagons and seventy ambulances fell into Union hands. After the fighting ended for the night, the house became a field hospital. After witnessing the rout of his army here, at the Hillsman House, and at the Marshall Farm, with eight generals and about 7,700 men captured, Gen. Robert E. Lee exclaimed, “My God! Has the army been dissolved?”