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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CW7_the-battle-of-five-forks_Sutherland-VA.html
For nine months, an ever-lengthening fortified line had protected Petersburg. On April 1, 1865, at this obscure county crossroads, that Confederate line finally stretched to its breaking point. "In its Result, it was to our country as Waterloo …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTK_rocky-branch-school_Sutherland-VA.html
In 1911 a group of Dinwiddie County's African-American residents established the Rocky Branch School in Sutherland. The school was a typical two-room schoolhouse. It had been moved from original location across from Ocran Methodist Church on U.S. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCHL_colonel-john-banister_Sutherland-VA.html
One mile to the south is the site of Hatcher's Run Plantation and the grave site of Col. John Banister (D. 1787), first mayor of Petersburg and prosperous entrepreneur. Banister represented Dinwiddie County in the House of Burgesses (1765-1775) an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA3Y_fork-inn_Sutherland-VA.html
Built in 1803 by Fendall Chiles Sutherland (1770-1833) and Elizabeth Traylor Sutherland (1785-1864), the Sutherland homestead also served as a stagecoach stop, inn, and tavern. The first post office in southside Virginia was established here in 18…
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On the morning of 2 Apr. 1865, Union forces arrived here by way of Clairborne Road and found Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's Confederate division entrenched on Cox Road. During the day, Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles's division made three distinct assaults agai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9M6_the-battle-of-white-oak-road_Sutherland-VA.html
With their success at Lewis Farm, Union troops gained a foothold on one of Lee's supply routes, the Boydton Plank Road. It was strategically necessary for the Federals to control this road because it was a major route Confederate General Robert E.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9M4_the-battle-of-white-oak-road_Sutherland-VA.html
General Grant wanted to force his way around the Confederate right flank and cut the last remaining supply lines into Petersburg. The offensive began on March 29, 1865. Union Major General Philip H. Sheridan's cavalry moved towards Dinwiddie Court…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9LW_the-battle-of-white-oak-road_Sutherland-VA.html
It was March 1865. The Civil War had raged across battlefields from New Mexico to Pennsylvania for four desperate years. More than three million men had fought and more than 600,000 men had died but, finally, the war was winding to a close. The Fe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9LU_the-battle-of-white-oak-road_Sutherland-VA.html
Welcome to the Civil War Preservation Trust's White Oak Road Battlefield! The battlefield walking trail is a two-thirds-of-a-mile path that takes you past six wayside signs interpreting the 1865 battle, the remains of the Confederate earthworks, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9LS_white-oak-road-engagement_Sutherland-VA.html
Union forces belonging to the V Corps, under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, sought to seize the White Oak Road and sever the Confederate line of communication with Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett's detachment near Five Forks, four miles west. From he…
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