FIVE FORKS

a place near Dinwiddi Courthouse, Virginia, where, on April 1 1865, severe engagements took plac between the Union and Confederat armies, the former commanded by; General Sheridan and the latter b; General Lee. After heavy fight in; which continued for several hours the Confederates were obliged to retrea with a large lo in killed and wounded They left 5,000 prisoners and sever a guns in the hands of the Union army The Union lo was about 1,000 men including General Winthrop, who wa: killed.