page_title: Farmville, Virginia
section_title: Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Farmville, Virginia / History / Civil War
caption_attribution_description: English: Farmville, Virginia (vicinity). High bridge of the South Side Railroad across the Appomattox. NOTE: Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: High Bridge across Appomattox River, south side railroad. Farmvill, Va., (vicinity) April 1865. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection of the Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication.
context_page_description: Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 8,216 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County.
  The Appomattox River traverses Farmville, along with the High Bridge Trail State Park, a more than 30-mile-long rail trail park. At the intersection of US 15, VA 45 and US 460, Farmville is the home of Longwood University and is the town nearest to Hampden–Sydney College.
context_section_description: Confederate General Robert E. Lee retreated through Farmville as he escaped the Union Army in the Civil War.  Farmville was the object of the Confederate Army's desperate push to get rations to feed its soldiers near the end of the American Civil War. The rations had originally been destined for Danville, but an alert quartermaster ordered the train back to Farmville. Despite an advance of the cavalry commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate Army was checked by the arrival of Union cavalry commanded by Gen. Philip Sheridan and two divisions of infantry. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia found itself soon surrounded. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
  The Prince Edward county seat was moved from Worsham to Farmville in 1871.
caption: High Bridge
  Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1865
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