Historical Marker
Decisive Confederate Victory
Historical marker location:
Louisa, Virginia
( Marker is on West Street (County Route 666), on the right when traveling west.)
The Largest All-Cavalry Battle of the Western Hemisphere.
The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.