Digging In-Five Forks - Dinwiddie VA
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 08.357 W 077° 37.410
18S E 266975 N 4113545
Just before noon on April 1, 1865, 10,000 Confederates under Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett arrived here at Five Forks. They immediately started digging and by mid-afternoon had constructed a rough earthwork that extended along the White Oak Road.
Waymark Code: WM133EB
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2020
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Digging In-Five Forks Unit-Petersburg National Battlefield-- “Hold Five Forks at all hazards…”
Just before noon on April 1, 1865, 10,000 Confederates under Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett arrived here at Five Forks. They immediately started digging and by mid-afternoon had constructed a rough earthwork that extended along the White Oak Road for nearly two miles. You are standing at the center of that Confederate line.
Weary, wet, and hungry, the Confederates waited – aware that if they yielded, nothing would stand between the Federals and the South Side Railroad, the last supply line into Petersburg. Until 4 p.m. the Confederates waited quietly behind the works. Then they saw them: men in blue, advancing astride the Dinwiddie Road. The rattle of musketry soon signaled the opening of the Battle of Five Forks.
LOCATION: Marker is near Dinwiddie, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County. Marker is on White Oak Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling west. It is at the northwest corner of the Five Forks intersection.
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