Five Forks


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Five Forks

A crossroads in southeast Virginia southwest of Petersburg where the last major Civil War battle was fought on April 1, 1865. The Union victory led to the fall of Petersburg, the capture of Richmond, and the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9.
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When Cathy first arrived - it was in the forenoon - Buffalo Bill was away, carrying orders to Major Fuller, at Five Forks, up in the Clayton Hills.
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Construction began last month on Five Forks Solar, which will be a 25.9 mw-dc facility when completed, and North Halifax Solar, which will be a 26.9 mw-dc facility.
Klue, of Spencer Hines Properties Greenville, represented the Upstate Church Five Forks in a lease of 7,500 square feet of worship space at 11 Five Forks Plaza Court in Simpsonville.
The story of the Battle of Dinwiddie Courthouse, a bitter battle during the closing days of the war in Virginia, is told through many first-person accounts in "The South's 'Sunset Charge.'" In this fight, the prelude to the better -known battle of Five Forks, Federal troops put up a stout fight, despite being heavily outnumbered, with the help of their deadly repeating carbines.
Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865 and the Controversy that Brought Down a General is a detailed, scholarly analysis of one of the final battles of the American Civil War.
Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, and the Controversy That Brought Down a General
George Pickett in the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia.
One day, after setting several traps in a heavily vegetated pond in the Five Forks unit of Petersburg National Battlefield, he and his colleagues made an unexpected discovery: an enormous black salamander called a two-toed amphiuma.
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He captured the enemy flag at Five Forks in Virginia.