CHAPTER 560
An Act to authorize the State Library Board to erect four historical
markers.
[H 601]
Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. From funds provided by law, the State Library Board is authorized
to erect in the appropriate places four historical markers. The first shall
be posted at Edgehill, and shall bear substantially the following legend:
Headquarters of General Robert E. Lee from November 24, 1864 until
April 2, 1865, when the main house was destroyed by Federal cannon. The
present residence was one of the detached buildings. This was also the site
of Long Ordinary, occupied by British General O’Hara during the Revolu-
tionary War.

The second marker shall be posted at Cottage Farm, and shall bear
substantially the following legend:

COTTAGE FARM

Site of the home of Robt. D. McIlwaine. Here on the afternoon of
April 2, 1865, General Lee wrote the orders for the evacuation that evening
of Petersburg and Richmond, and for the beginning of the march that
ended at Appomattox.

The third marker shall be posted below City Point, Virginia, and shall
bear substantially the following legend:

THE CATTLE RAID

In this field were penned the 2486 cattle captured by Confederate
Cavalry under General Wade Hampton from the Federal forces below City
Point, Va., September 16, 1864.

The fourth marker shall be posted at or near the intersection of State
Routes 92 and 58 in the county of Mecklenburg, and shall bear substan-
tially the following legend:

A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
RICHARD KENNON OF MECKLENBURG

Richard Kennon, soldier and statesman, of Mecklenburg County. He
served from August, 1776 to May 4, 1778, at Valley Forge in the Fifth
Virginia Regiment. He later served as major and as lieutenant-colonel in
the Virginia militia. He was influential in the General Assembly as a
member of the House of Delegates and later, of the Senate of Virginia, as
its presiding officer. He served his State and his nation in public life from
1779 until his death in 1805.