Late in the afternoon of April 6, 1865, a Confederate wagon train that had passed Holt’s Corner and then turned south at James S. Lockett’s farm toward Rice’s Station began crossing two bridges here over Little Sailor’s Creek and Big Sailor’s Creek in the low ground. The wagons jammed the narrow road and small bridges and soon bogged down. Behind this roadblock to the north, Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon’s corps took up positions near the Lockett House as Union Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys closed in with his 2nd Corps. Near sunset, the fighting at the Lockett House intensified, and the Confederates began to withdraw. Darkness ended the fighting, but not before the Federals had captured 1,300 prisoners, 3 guns, 70 ambulances, and more than 300 supply wagons. The remainder of the Confederate soldiers and wagons retreated in the darkness toward High Bridge.
