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Engaged with his newly reconstituted regiment in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, he then fought in the battles of Poplar Springs Church (September 29-October 2, 1864), Hatcher's Run (February 5-7, 1865) and Dinwiddie Court House (March 30-31) before entering the war-ending Appomattox Campaign and the Battle of Five Forks (April 1).
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to forces of the Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of the James and Army of the Shenandoah) under the overall command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, marking the effective ...
The final campaign for Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States, began when the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River in June 1864. The armies under the command of Lieutenant General and General in Chief Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) laid siege to Petersburg, south of Richmond, intending to cut the two cities' supply lines and force the Confederates to evacuate.
Battle of Appomattox Court House: Virginia: A: Union: Lee's forces surrounded. He subsequently surrenders. April 9, 1865: Battle of Fort Blakeley: Alabama: A: Union: Union forces capture fort east of Mobile. May 12 –13, 1865: Battle of Palmito Ranch: Texas: D: Confederate: Last battle in Texas during final phases of the Civil War ...
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the final military encounter of the American Civil War, the 1865 Appomattox campaign, which lasted from March 29 to April 9 and resulted in Confederate surrender on April 9 at the Appomattox Court House. Order of battle has been compiled from the army organization during the ...
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