BATTLE OF DINWIDDIE COURTHOUSE WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Cemetery Stones
Year Dedicated: 1972
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: BERNARD FISHER
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
THE LAST REBEL YELLS WERE HEARD HERE. GENERAL SHERIDAN RALLIED WITH REINFORCEMENTS THE NEXT DAY, APRIL 1ST, TO PRACTICALLY END THE WAR WHEN THE UNION WON OVERWHELMINGLY AT NEARBY FIVE FORKS, SOMETIMES CALLED THE “WATERLOO OF THE CONFEDERACY.” THIS LED TO THE EVACUATION OF PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND ON APRIL 2, 1865 WITH THE SURRENDER COMING A FEW DAYS LATER AT APPOMATTOX, ON APRIL 9, 1865.
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