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Monday, March 1, 2021

White Oak Road, Va.

From the 2021 American Battlefield Trust calendar for March.

WHITE OAK ROAD, Virginia

951 acres saved

Photo of White Oak Battlefield in Dinwiddie County, Va. by Kristi A. Gordon.

On March 31, 1865, Major General Gouverneur Warren's Union V Corps assaulted entrenched Confederates along White Oak Road.

Visitors to the battlefield today can still see the remains of these Confederate earthworks along a 0.64-mile interpretive trail managed by the Trust.

The more than 900 acres the Trust has saved here, including 48 acres in 2020, will eventually be a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield. 

--Old Secesh


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