Darbytown Road/Pioneer Baptist Church

W-101

The Battle of Darbytown Road, 7 Oct. 1864, was the last large Confederate offensive north of the James River. Gen. Robert E. Lee personally supervised the operation. Attacking from the west astride the Darbytown Road, Lee's infantry shattered the right flank of the Union army under Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz. Fleeing Union artillery batteries encountered the swampy headwaters of Four Mile Creek in the woods near Pioneer Baptist Church. The Confederates captured eight cannon there. Lee’s attack stalled to the south, near the River Road. Pioneer Church, organized in 1843, saw its building burned later in or shortly after the war.

Department of Historic Resources, 2007

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Unpublished Battle of Darbytown Road troop movement maps, produced in 1960 by Ed Bearss of the National Park Service. Unpublished Battle of Darbytown Road map produced in mid- 1990’s by the staff of the American Battlefield Protection Program, per the recommendations of the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission The official Records of the War of the Rebellion, volume XLII, part one. Virginia Baptist Historical Society—History of Pioneer Baptist Church.