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Appomattox Campaign
Lewis's FarmWhite Oak RoadDinwiddie Court HouseFive Forks3rd PetersburgSutherland's StationNamozine Church – Amelia Springs – Sayler's Creek – Rice's Station – High BridgeCumberland ChurchAppomattox StationAppomattox Courthouse
The Battle of Dinwiddie Court House was a minor engagement in Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War that was the immediate prelude to the decisive Battle of Five Forks. On March 29, 1865, with the Cavalry Corps and the II and V Corps, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan undertook a flank march to turn Gen. Robert E. Lee's Petersburg defenses. A steady downpour turned the roads to mud, slowing the advance. On March 31, Maj. Gen. W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee's cavalry and Maj. Gen. George Picketts infantry division met the Union vanguard north and northwest of Dinwiddie Court House and drove it back, collapsing the Union lines into a tight perimeter around the village, and temporarily stalling Sheridan's movement. With Union infantry approaching from the east, Pickett withdrew before daybreak to entrench at the vital road junction at Five Forks. Lee ordered Pickett to hold this intersection at all hazard.

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