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Late afternoon, April 1, 1865. Confederate infantrymen waited behind a rude, muddy earthworks lining the White Oak Road. Young Colonel William R. J. Pegram tended to his artillery: three guns in this fields, three others farther to the west (your right). Then came the Federals. Sheridan's dismounted cavalry attacked frontally. Later, Warren's infantry swept down from the east. After fierce fighting, the Confederate positions around the intersection collapsed. In the melee fell Colonel Pegram, mortally wounded in the side. Just 23 years old, Pegram had survived all of the Army of Northern Virginia's major battles. He died only five miles from his ancestral home, and just nine days short of the war's end.
The monument says: Near this site, Brigadier General John Pegram was killed in the Battle of Hatcher's Run on February 6, 1865. |