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Battle of Five Forks and postwar veterans rites
The narrative covers cavalry actions at Five Forks under Merritt and Sheridan, the pursuit of Pickett, and the Confederate retreat toward Richmond. It notes Union cavalry glory, the surrender at Appomattox, and a tribute to veterans with Gettysburg remembrances, cemetery decorations, and a G A R gathering in Red Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reveille Infantry
Merritt
Five Forks
Pickett
White Oak
Lee
Custer
Verry
Stewart
Ransome
Wallace
Pegram
Armstrong
Ayres
Sutherland
Sheridan
Humphreys
Fifth Corps
Fifty Corps
Warren
Graev
Mackenzie
White Oak Road
Vaughan Road
Scribner's
Battle of Five Forks
Newhall
Diuy
Fizhugh
Devin
Appomattox Court House
Richmond
Johnson
Grant
Sherman
Appomattox
Washington
Jim McQuade
Loyal Legion
Arrowsmith Post
G, Alr
Samuel T. Sleeper
Sons of Veterans
Red Bank
Shrewsbury
Hunt Plot
Little Silver Cemetery
Sickles Plot
Pal View
Charles Hill
Department of New
Henry M Nevins
Middletown
Colts Neck
Holmdel
Navesink
Mt. Olivet
Trinity
Middletown Township