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Description of Subject Matter: As 1865 began, Ulysses Grant continued to tighten the noose around the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee based around Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia. After the victory at Five Forks, Ulysses Grant ordered a massive assault on the Confederate defenses to the west of Petersburg. This assault began at 4:30am on April 2 1865 and the Confederate line began to unhinge.

Robert E Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg while 500 Confederate troops at Fort Gregg fought desperately to give him time to build some new defensive lines to cover his retreat. The men valiantly protected the fort until Union troops found another way in and finally seized it.

Lee's army retreated from Petersburg and Richmond, moving west to try to merge with Joseph Johnston's army in North Carolina. Desperate for food and supplies, they found their way halted by bureaucratic screw-ups and Union cavalry under Philip Sheridan. Various engagements happened throughout, with a major engagement at Little Sailor's Creek on April 6. Lee lost one quarter of his force in that engagement, leading him to ask "My God, has the army been dissolved?" His men continued to fall back, finally being trapped in Appomattox. There on April 9, Lee signed the surrender papers from Grant and the Army of Virginia disappeared.

There are separate entries for the big items along the retreat -- Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, and Appomattox. The "Lee's Retreat" entry covers the lesser items such as:

Sutherland's Station: At the same time, Nelson Miles' division within Andrew Humphrey's II Corps, was ordered to move on Henry Heth's division which was regrouping at Sutherland's Station, sitting along the Southside Railroad. At 3pm, Miles attacked and the Confederates broke. Miles' men captured 1000 prisoners and two cannon. The Fork Inn was one of the landmarks of the fighting at Sutherland's Station.
There was a flag flying here that said "Rebel blood in my veins; Yankee blood in my yard."

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