Death of Pegram-Five Forks Unit - Dinwiddie VA
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Don.Morfe
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After fierce fighting, the Confederate positions around the intersection collapsed. In the melee fell Colonel Pegram, mortally wounded in the side. Just 23 years old, Pegram had survived all of the Army of Northern Virginia’s major battles
Waymark Code: WM133EC
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2020
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Death of Pegram-Five Forks Unit-Petersburg National Battlefield--Late afternoon, April 1, 1865. Confederate infantrymen waited behind rude, muddy earthworks lining the White Oak Road. Young Colonel William R.J. Pegram tended to his artillery: three guns in this field, three others farther to the west (your right). Then came the Federals. Sheridan’s dismounted cavalry attacked frontally. Later, Warren’s infantry swept down from the east.
After fierce fighting, the Confederate positions around the intersection collapsed. In the melee fell Colonel Pegram, mortally wounded in the side. Just 23 years old, Pegram had survived all of the Army of Northern Virginia’s major battles. He died only five miles from his ancestral home and just nine days short of the war’s end.
Location: Marker is near Dinwiddie, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County. Marker is on White Oak Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling west. Marker is in the Five Forks Unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield. It is located at the Five Forks intersection, in the northwest corner.
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