 Eventually, what remained of the white population was formed into a home guard militia supplemented by veterans from the campaigns in the North as a large Union invading army arrived into the area.Surviving on a barely prosperous plantation economy, the region was critically damaged in the subsequent Civil War campaigns, principally the Bermuda Hundred Campaign.The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of battles fought in the vicinity of the town during May 1864, in the American Civil War.