The Engagement at Sutherland Station Virginia historical marker is on the north side of Cox Road (US 460) about half a mile east of the intersection with Claiborne Road (Route 631) and Namozene Road (Route 708), across from the Ocran United Methodist Church. (37°11’42.7″N 77°33’13.0″W)
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Engagement at
Sutherland Station
On the morning of 2 Apr. 1865, Union forces
arrived here by way of Clairborne Road and
found Maj. Gen. Henry Heth’s Confederate
division entrenched on Cox Road. During the
day, Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles’s division made
three distinct assaults against the half-mile-
long Confederate line, which stretched from
Ocran Church to Sutherland’s Tavern. The third
charge forced Heth’s division out of its works
and west on the Namozine Road, thereby
severing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s final supply line,
the South Side Railroad. Lee ordered the
Army of Northern Virginia to evacuate both
Petersburg and Richmond that night.
Department of Historic Resources 1998