Most Haunted Places in America: Sailors Creek Battlefield Park
The battle at Sailors Creek in Amelia County Virginia would be one of the last major battles of the Civil War. Grant had taken Richmond and Petersburg and was setting a course to pursue General Robert E. Lee and what remained of the Confederate army.
General Lee’s last hope was to head south and rendezvous with the army of North Carolina to resupply and get much needed food. His plans to head straight to North Carolina were changed near a little resort called Amelia Springs when his scouts found a Calvary unit in their path. General Lee decided to pass through the line at night instead of fighting through and all went well until the very last of his division was seen and the Union was again in hot pursuit.This all led up to the battle at Sailors Creek.
On the high side of one side of the creek were the Union soldiers; on the high side of the other were the Confederate soldiers. The Union bombarded the Confederates with artillery which unfortunately they did not have to return fire. The Union charged and crossed the creek, the Confederates held, The Union then re-grouped and charged again, this time with success.
What followed was one of the biggest surrenders of the war. A corps commander, several generals and other officers, close to 7,000 men and several hundred wagons full of supplies all surrendered in the 3 skirmishes around Sailors Creek in total. Upon seeing what was left of his army, General Lee proclaimed, “My God! Has the army been dissolved?” Three days later came the surrender at Appomattox.
During this battle the Hillsman Farm home of Lucy Hillsman, wife of a captured Confederate Captain, her mother, 2 children and 6 servants was used as a field hospital for the Union. The occupants of the home was forced to the cellar and had to live with the cries of the wounded and dying as surgeons reportedly tried to save lives from both sides.
The Union soldiers that died were buried on the farm and then moved to the Popular Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg. The Confederate dead were left in the field where the fell. The 6 servants buried the Confederate soldiers in mass unmarked graves. Lucy Hillsman and her family would then leave the home and never returned.
It is at this home and less than half a mile down the hill to the creek that people have observed apparitions of soldiers dutifully crossing the creek and performing tasks laid out to them over 140 years before. It was here right outside the Hillsman house that we had our K2 meter fluctuate and captured this EVP; the last two sections have been looped and enhanced to better understand the answer including slowing down the recording.
The original answer can be heard faintly around the 6 second mark. You may leave your comment on what you think it says and if there is interest we will give our opinion.
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In this little stretch of Amelia County, it is said the 7,700 Confederate soldiers, nearly 1/5th of General Lee’s remaining fighting force as well as 1,150 Union soldiers were killed, captured, wounded or missing from the battles at Sailor’s creek.
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7 comments ↓
sounds like a bullfrog
IT SOUNDED LIKE ” AT THE FARM ” TO 4 DIFFERENT PEOPLE
I agree with Eric…gotta be a frog!
“Death was horrible.”
It sounds like he is saying “In the farm” which could mean he/she died in the farmhouse that was owned by the Hillsman family. We used to live on Bunker Hill Road in Rice Va, my mom has seen many things there but one thing that caught her attention was a full blown apperation(sp) of a full body figure walking towards the Hillsman home after crossing the bridge at 3:30am she slowed down to see if it was a person needing help and by the time she got close enough to it, it disappeared. (She was a bartender in Farmville at the time and drove that road every night between 3 and 5 am) We have actual bullets we found in our back yard close to that battle field there were man made trenches in our back wooded area that I refused to walk in because I felt too much energy in that area. But that is and always will be one of my favorite places to live at in Virginia. I hope this helped you out some with the investigation you did. If you ever do another one my mother and I would be willing to share our experiences with you all over the area of Amelia County Courthouse. We also lived on Namizine Road where Lees retreat was we lived about a half a mile from the Namizine Church that they used as a hospital. Hope this helps ya out some =) Thank you for your time for reading what I had to say. Ashton
Confirming…At the farm
“Death felt horrible” was what I heard. Fascinating stuff, particularly for me, as my family and I visited Sailor’s Creek, coincidentally at the exact time and day, 100 years after the battle occurred. The weather was even the same, rainy! And we felt the energy of the spirits, could nearly see them… all of us. We had never experienced anything like it before nor have we since, nor are many of us atuned to such things, in general.
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