Meadowville

Meadowville was a plantation of about 350 acres where John Cundiff, a bachelor, lived during the Civil War and produced oats, potatoes, and hay. After the savage fighting at the Brawner Farm on the evening of August 28, the house and grounds became a field hospital for hundreds of wounded Union soldiers. A Union officer who visited that night recalled the area lighted by torches or bits of candle while surgeons were busily engaged in their melancholy labors. Of the wounded, he wrote that he heard few complaints or groans, but that as he gazed on the poor patient fellows, his heart grew sick within him and the whole air seemed full of anguish.

Virginia · United States