Results for The Battle of White Oak Road
The Battle of White Oak Road
Breaking the Line
The Battle of White Oak Road left ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
The Union Counterattack
As the fight progressed, the...
The Battle of White Oak Road
March 31, 1865
Early on the morning of March 31, 186...
The Battle of White Oak Road
Moving into Position
With their success at Lewis Far...
The Battle of White Oak Road
The Battle of Lewis Farm
General Grant wanted to for...
The Battle of White Oak Road
Four Years of War, Ten Months of Siege
It was March ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
The Union Counterattack
As the fight progressed, the...
Results for The Battle of White Oak Road
The Battle of White Oak Road
Breaking the Line
The Battle of White Oak Road left the Federals in position to block Confederate reinforcements from reaching their comrades further west. Both the Battle of White Oak Road and the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House were preludes to ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
The Union Counterattack
As the fight progressed, the Confederates met stiffening resistance. Lee and his subordinates realized they had too few troops to hold their advanced position. They determined to withdraw to the slight earthworks constructed by the Federal soldiers just ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
March 31, 1865
Early on the morning of March 31, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent most of a division forward to attack the Federals from this location at White Oak Road. Fighting through the morning, the Confederate brigades enveloped ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
Moving into Position
With their success at Lewis Farm, Union troops gained a foothold on one of Lee’s supply routes, the Boydton Plank Road. It was strategically necessary for the Federals to control this road because it was a major route ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
The Battle of Lewis Farm
General Grant wanted to force his way around the Confederate right flank and cut the last remaining supply lines into Petersburg. The offensive began on March 29, 1865. Union Major General Philip H. Sheridan’s cavalry moved ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
Four Years of War, Ten Months of Siege
It was March 1865. The Civil War had raged across battlefields from New Mexico to Pennsylvania for four desperate years. More than three million men had fought and more than 600,000 men had ...
The Battle of White Oak Road
The Union Counterattack
As the fight progressed, the Confederates met stiffening resistance. Lee and his subordinates realized they had too few troops to hold their advanced position. They determined to withdraw to the slight earthworks constructed by the Federal soldiers just ...
