Excerpt from John Randolph
Turkey Island, just above the junction of the James and Appomattox rivers, lies in a re gion which has sharply attracted the attention of men. In 1675 Nathaniel Bacon lived near by at his plantation called Curles, and in that year Bacon's famous rebellion gave bloody as sociations to the place. About one hundred years afterwards Benedict Arnold, then a gen era] in the British service, made a destructive raid up the James River which drew all eyes to the spot. Neither of these disturbances, his torical as they are, made the region nearly so famous as it became on June 30, 1862, when fifty thousand northern troops, beaten, weary, and disorganized, converged at Malvern Hill and Turkey Island bridge, and the next day fought a battle which saved their army, and perhaps their cause, without a thought or a care for the dust of forgotten Randolphs on which two armies were trampling in the cradle of them race.
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