At the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, sometimes called Chamberlain’s Bed, on March 31, 1865, Confederate forces led by Generals Pickett, W.H.F. Lee, and Fitzhugh Lee defeated General Sheridan’s troops and forced them back to Dinwiddie Court House in the last brief victory of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the last rebel yells were heard there. Sheridan rallied with reinforcements the next day, April 1, to help bring the war near its end when the Union won overwhelmingly at nearby Five Forks, sometimes called the Waterloo of the Confederacy. That victory led to the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond on April 2, 1865, followed a few days later by the surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Dinwiddie County was the scene of forty-nine battles, engagements, and skirmishes during the Civil War, with over fifty miles of fortifications and sixty forts and batteries, including fighting at Reams, Weldon Railroad, Peebles Farm, Burgess Mill, Hatcher’s Run, Gravelly Run, White Oak Road, Five Forks, Sutherland, and Fort Gregg and Fort Baldwin between 1864 and 1865.