Hannah Reynolds, an enslaved woman, was the only civilian casualty of the battle at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Left behind at the home of her enslaver Dr. Samuel H. Coleman. when he removed his family from his land that just 2 days later would become the scene of some of the hottest fighting on the morning of Lee's surrender. While Dr. Coleman, his wife, Amanda to whom Hannah had been "given" as a wedding gift, and the couple's young daughter , Mary Ann, made their way to safety long before the bullets and cannonfire started to erupt, Hannah was not so fortunate. A Confederate artillery shell came through the place where Hannah lived and struck her a mortal blow. Hannah was treated in a Union field hospital. The Chaplain of the 8th Maine Infantry, Reverend John E.M. Wright, wrote about the moment when he and Dr. Benjamin Williams, Assistant Surgeon, happened upon Hannah and her husband Abram Reynolds. "Only a few rods away, in a house built of hewn timber, laid up loghouse fashion, we found a colored man and his wife. She was sick with fever and unable to be moved. As she lay upon her bed, a solid shot had passed through one wall of the house at just the right height to strike her arm, and then passed out through the opposite wall. Her arm was very large and fleshy and a concave wound was made corresponding to the size and shape of the ball. I hardly knew which the more to pity, the wife in her intense physical pain, or the husband in his helpless sympathy, both almost dead with fear. Dr. Williams, our assistant surgeon, came to their relief with as much care, skill and tenderness, as I had seen him display in dress­ ing the wound of a major general commanding a corps, he dressed the wound of this poor unknown colored woman, and with encouraging, cheering, hopeful words we left them." Three days after the battle and her wounding Hannah Reynolds died. Troops at Appomattox Court House began marching back to their Earthly homes, while Hannah though enslaved while alive, died free and left for her heavenly home. Hannah was survived by her husband and a possible daughter- Josephine- who was born in 1856.