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The Battle of Namozine Church, Virginia was an engagement between Federal Army and Confederate Army forces that occurred on April 3rd, 1865 during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle was the first engagement between units of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia after that army's evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia on April 2nd, 1865 and units of the Union Army (Army of the Shenandoah, Army of the Potomac and Army of the James) under the immediate command of Major General Philip Sheridan, who was still acting independently as commander of the Army of the Shenandoah, and under the overall direction of Federal General-in-Chief Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant.