Editing Farmville, Virginia (section)

===Civil War===
[[File:High Bridge Farmville Virginia.jpg|thumb|220px|right|High Bridge<br />Photo by [[Timothy H. O'Sullivan]], 1865]]
Confederate General [[Robert E. Lee]] retreated through Farmville as he escaped the [[Union Army]].  Farmville was the object of the [[Confederate Army]]'s desperate push to get rations to feed its soldiers near the end of the [[American Civil War]]. The rations had originally been destined for [[Danville, Virginia|Danville]], but an alert [[quartermaster]] ordered the train back to Farmville. Despite an advance of the cavalry commanded by [[Fitzhugh Lee]], the Confederate Army was checked by the arrival of [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] cavalry commanded by Gen. [[Philip Sheridan]] and two divisions of infantry. General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s [[Army of Northern Virginia]] found itself soon surrounded. He surrendered at [[Appomattox Court House National Historical Park|Appomattox Court House]] on April 9, 1865.

The Prince Edward county seat was moved from [[Worsham, Virginia|Worsham]] to Farmville in 1871.