 The famous charge was disastrous to the 18th Virginia, and many families in Nottoway County lost relatives in it.The 18th Regiment's colors were captured at the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge and are now displayed in Gettysburg.The county was the site of only one major skirmish, the "Battle of the Grove," which was fought near Blackstone (then known as Blacks and Whites) for control of the rail line that supplied General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, then entrenched around Petersburg and Richmond.