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 ...

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 RI ...