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    The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, around the road junction of Five Forks, Dinwiddie County, at...
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  • order of battle for the Battle of Five Forks includes: Battle of Five Forks order of battle: Confederate Battle of Five Forks order of battle: Union...
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  • Five Forks may refer to: The Battle of Five Forks, a battle of the American Civil War in Dinwiddie County, Virginia Places in the United States Five Forks...
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  • units and commanders fought in the Battle of Five Forks of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. MG = Major General...
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    George Pickett (category American people of English descent)
    overwhelmed and defeated at the Battle of Five Forks. Following the war, Pickett feared prosecution for his execution of deserters and temporarily fled...
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    fortifications after the Union victory at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865. As a result of that battle the Confederate right flank and rear were...
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    Five Forks Battlefield is a battlefield of the American Civil War, the location of the Battle of Five Forks (April 1, 1865), in which Union Army forces...
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    Gouverneur K. Warren (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    remaining military career were ruined during the Battle of Five Forks, when he was relieved of command of the V Corps by Philip Sheridan, who claimed that...
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  • Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Five Forks of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. MG = Major General...
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    1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from West Virginia)
    fighting that continued until after dark. The Battle of Five Forks occurred on April 1, 1865. Five Forks is a small community in Dinwiddie County, located...
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    Samuel W. Crawford (category Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni)
    battlefield after the war is due in large part to his efforts. During the Battle of Five Forks, his division went astray which caused his corps commander, Maj....
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    Joshua Chamberlain (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    fought at the Battle of Five Forks and was given the honor of commanding the Union troops at the surrender ceremony for the infantry of Robert E. Lee's...
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  • defeats and the collapse of Confederate lines at the Battle of Five Forks on the following day, April 1, 1865, and the Third Battle of Petersburg (also known...
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    William Pegram (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded in the Battle of Five Forks. He was the younger brother of Confederate...
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    Charles Griffin (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    service at the Battle of Five Forks and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on July 23, 1866. Griffin mustered out of the volunteer service...
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  • August Kauss (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    Medal of Honor. Kauss's medal was won for capturing the battle flag of the 22nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia...
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    Ranald S. Mackenzie (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    appointment, Mackenzie assumed command of the Cavalry Division in the Army of the James, which he led at the battles of Five Forks and Appomattox Courthouse. Ulysses...
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    Jacob Koogle (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Koogle's medal was won for capturing the flag at the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia on April 1, 1865. He...
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    Confederate defensive lines at the Battle of Five Forks on the following day, April 1, 1865, and at the Third Battle of Petersburg (also known as the Breakthrough...
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  • 7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Wisconsin)
    Medal of Honor for actions at the Battle of Five Forks. George H. Walther was captain of Co. I and was wounded at Gainesville. Later served as major of the...
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    Wesley Merritt (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    the Battle of Five Forks and the Appomattox Campaign. In June 1865, Merritt was appointed command of Cavalry Forces of the Military Division of the Southwest...
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  • and he had received a battlefield commission at the Battle of Five Forks just before the end of the war. (This conflicts with episode 3/25, "The Prisoner"...
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    House. Battle of Peebles' Farm Battle of Lewis's Farm Battle of Dinwiddie Court House Battle of White Oak Road Battle of Five Forks Battle of Sutherland's...
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    Appomattox campaign (category Battles commanded by Ulysses S. Grant)
    of Petersburg and cut their supply lines to Petersburg and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Union victories at the Battle of Five Forks...
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    118th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Pennsylvania)
    war including the Battle of Gettysburg, Siege of Petersburg, and escorted the truce flag of Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Five Forks. The regiment was...
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    David L. Stanton (category People of Maryland in the American Civil War)
    Infantry Regiment in the final months of the war, being brevetted for his services at the Battle of Five Forks. Stanton was born on February 2, 1840,...
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  • David Edwards (soldier) (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action during the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia on 1 April 1865. He was honored with...
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    1865, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry turned Lee's flank at the Battle of Five Forks. The next day Grant's army achieved a decisive breakthrough, effectively...
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    Charles N. Gardner (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Gardner's medal was won for capturing the flag at the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia on April 1, 1865. He...
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    (23 km) southwest of downtown Petersburg, this unit contains the site of the Battle of Five Forks, which destroyed a sizable portion of the remaining Confederate...
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