now, one of the largest services robert lee has available is of george pickett's gettysburg fame. they along with the confederate calvary, along with its new leader robert e. lee's nephew fitz lee, meet south of petersburg. and it will be there where pickett will bloody sheridan's nose, which could have been the worst thing he could've have done. because as i have studied the civil war there is no human being i would fear more rather than to serve with or against is 33-year-old phil sheridan in 1865. by pickett stopping him, he asked for support from the infantry. he did not like the answer that he got, but he gets the union fifth corps attached to him. pickett, realizing the infantry was coming to support the cavalry, withdraws to one of the most obscure little crossroads you will ever come across. five roads that intersect in rural dinwiddie county, known locally as five forks. you can go out here in prince edward's county and find five forks here. you can go to every county in virginia and find that intersection. but at the one in dinwiddie george pickett is going to set his me

along with anderson and pickett also was confederate cavalry. so in the federal army general george gordon lee's three army corps, humphrey second corps fifth corps and wright's sixth corps. they will be following here the army mentioned in the confederate white house pictures, he will be following basically what is route 460. now, at the beginning of this campaign, the federal army had 76,000 effectives by the time they get to appomattox they will have 63000 with a loss on this entire campaign of 8,600 men. that's the union army. on the other hand the confederate army ran between 55 and 58,000 affect i was. general lee will surrender about 30,000 of his men at appomattox and casualties will number 48,000, most will be prisoners as we'll talk about tomorrow at sailor's creek. when lee pulled his army from richmond and petersburg they were all to consolidate and move on here amelia courthouse. runs along richmond and danville railroad and goes on through here and crosses the south side railroad right here at burkville. remember that is what lee had hoped to have supplies waiting for

along with anderson and pickett was was the confederate calvary. in the federal army you had general george gordon mead three army corps, and other groups, and they will be following for the most part here the army of the james. following what is basically route 460. the army had 76,000 effective and by the time they get to appomattox they will have 63,000 with a loss on this entire campaign of 8600 men. on the other hand the confederate army ran between 55,000 and 58,000. general lee will surrender about 30,000 of his men at appomattox, their casualties will number 28,000. most of those will be prisoners as we talk about tomorrow at sailor's creek. when lee pulled his army they would all consolidate and move upon here. amelia courthouse you can see runs along the richmond railroad and then crosses the south side railroad at burkeville. that is what he hoped to have supplies waiting for him. when he gets to amelia courthouse he expects to find ration trains waiting for him there through some mixup they are not there. lee decides to spend a day in that area asking his troops to go out and as