BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS WAR MEMORIAL
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.
Location
Details
Memorial Type:
Cemetery Stones
Access:
Public
Wars Commemorated:
CIVIL WAR
Year Dedicated:
1965
Photograph By:
BILL COUGHLIN
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