"On April 5, 1865, four years later almost to the day, General Grant occupied Nottoway Court House in pursuit of General Lee's Army, and received word here that General Sheridan was at Jetersville, across General Lee's line of retreat.

 

 

 

The Yankees used the pews in the Presbyterian Church for horse stalls, and ransacked the Clerk's Office, cutting the indexes out of the books and hacking them to pieces with their sabres, finally throwing them into the horse trough, where they were later rescued and returned to the Clerk's Office. In one of these old books may still be seen written by a Yankee soldier, "Abraham Lincoln, President of Virginia 1865." 

 

Excerpt from "Old Homes and Families in Nottoway", by W.R. Turner, Copyright 1932 Printed in U.S.A By the Nottoway Publishing Co., Inc. , Blackstone, VA.