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The Battle of Five Forks - April 1, 1865

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Lithograph - Kurz & Allison--Battle of Five Forks, Va. Library of Congress

Army of the Potomac - Major General George Meade

V Corps - Major General Gouveneur K. Warren

Third Division -  Brigadier General Samuel W. Crawford

Third Brigade - Colonel Richard Coulter

94th New York Infantry Regiment - Major Henry H. Fish
95th New York Infantry Regiment - Captain George T. Knight
147th New York Infantry Regiment - Major Dennis B. Dailey
56th/88th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment - Major Henry A. Laycock
121st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment - Major West Funk
142 Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment - Lt. Col. Horation N. Warren

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Click thumbnail to open a larger map on the Civil War Trust Website @ http://www.civilwar.org

Among the soldiers of the 88th who were killed or mortally wounded at Five Forks:

Company A: Captain Thomas J. Koch, Sgt. David Whitaker (MW)

Company  E:  Lt. Daniel J. Lehman (MW)

Company H: Sgt Thomas R. Hartman (MW)

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The Fifth Corps Attacks at Five Forks - Alfred Waud - Library of Congress

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Five Forks, Virginia vicinity Confederate prisoners on the way to the rear. Captured at Five Forks - Library of Congress

Out of 22,000 Union troops engaged Union forces suffered approximately 830 casualties.

Out of 10,600 Confederate troops engaged, Confederate forces suffered approximately 2,950 casualties.

The Eighty-Eighth suffers four killed, twenty-seven wounded and nine missing (who were later confirmed as prisoners of war).

The Battle of Five Forks was a Union Victory.
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The Battle of Five Forks - Civil War Trust

Five Forks Battlefield - National Park Service

The Battle of Five Forks - Sons of the South

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