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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
s command will also be started from Suffolk, to leave there on Saturday, the 1st of April, under Colonel Sumner, for the purpose of cutting the railroad about Hicksforun until an infantry bridge was built. This consumed till near two A. M. of April 1st, when Ayres crossed his division and hastened towards Dinwiddie. When the dawn. It was, in fact, seen hastily decamping by Ayres, when, at daylight of April 1st, he joined the cavalry. Sheridan followed up vigorously, putting his whole fhe cavalry midway between Dinwiddie Courthouse and Five Forks at seven A. M., April 1st. Full of doubts and fears as the night had been, morning dispelled these and Petersburg The situation of the opposing forces on the morning of the 1st of April was somewhat peculiar. From the Appomattox to Hatcher's Run the Confederateharges, drove the Confederates from two temporary lines, until, at two P. M., April 1st, he had confined them within their works at the Five Forks. The admirable me