Map of Boydton Plank Road or Hatcher's Run, October 27, 1864
from John Davis Billings, The History of the Tenth Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery, 1881, pg. 278

"The topography of the map of this battle was taken from Michler's U.S. Map, and the location of troops mainly from a map sketched by Col. Morgan, then Hancock's chief-of-staff." Billings

J. Henry Sleeper of "Sleeper's Battery," 10th Massachusetts Light Artillery. Sleeper's Battery and the Second Army Corps generally, had a bad day on October 27, 1864. Flung out to the west From Globe Tavern on largely uncharted roads to cut the enemy's supply line of Boydton Plank Road, Hancock's Second Corps, supported loosely by the Fifth, ran into a pocket of determined Confederate resistance at Burgess's Mill on Hatcher's Run. A Confederate counterattack, directed by the ever-annoying Gen. "Billy" Mahone, lost coherence in the dense woods but not before nearly cutting off the Second Corps from the rest of the army and thereby handing Gen. Hancock his "scalp."

Overlay of the above map on modern street data with scale bar. The Burgess Mill Pond, White Oak Road (Rte. 613 west), Boydton Plank Road (US Rte. 1), Quaker Road (Rte. 660), and Dabney's Mill Road (Rte. 613 east), all line up tolerably well. Interstate I-85 cuts through the eastern half of the battlefield.

ARMSTRONG'S MILLS AND REBEL WORKS ON HATCHER'S RUN, CAPTURED BY THE SECOND CORPS, OCTOBER 27, 1864. Harper's Weekly, November 19, 1864.