BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Cemetery Stones
Year Dedicated: 1965
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: BILL COUGHLIN
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
HERE AT FIVE FORKS ON APRIL 1, 1865 10,000 CONFEDERATES, COMMANDED BY GENERAL PICKETT, WERE OVERWHELMED BY ABOUT 50,000 FEDERAL TROOPS, LED BY GENERAL SHERIDAN, THEREBY OPENING THE WARY TO THE SOUTHSIDE RAILROAD MAKING FURTHER DEFENSE OF PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND IMPOSSIBLE. WITHDRAWAL TO APPOMATTOX FOLLOWED.
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