Last updated: April 10, 2022
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Crawford’s Sweep - Five Forks
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Major General Samuel Crawford's division of the V Corps missed the confederate line at the angle and moved to hatchers run before realizing the mistake. They turned at that point and came out on the Ford’s Road, the Union objective. Turning south they moved against the Five Forks intersection from the north completing the near encirclement of the southern defenders.