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 the end of the Siege of Petersburg, near the conclusion of the American Civil War.
Sheridan's charge at Five Forks (lithograph published c.1886)
Major General Fitzhugh Lee
Major General George Pickett
Major General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee
Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Dinwiddie County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,947. Its county seat is Dinwiddie.
Dinwiddie County's historic courthouse
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Portrait of Robert Dinwiddie; Dinwiddie County was named in his honor