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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYI_elizabeth-hobbs-keckley-1818-1907_DeWitt-VA.html
Born near here in Dinwiddie County in 1818, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, or Keckly, was a
dressmaker and abolitionist. She lived as a slave in Virginia and North Carolina but
eventually bought her freedom in 1855. By 1860 she had relocated to Baltim…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O3_digging-in_Dewitt-VA.html
"Hold Five Forks at all hazards?"
Just before noon on April 1, 1865, 10,000 Confederates under Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett arrived here at Five Forks. They immediately started digging and by mid-afternoon had constructed a rough earthwork that …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O1_death-of-pegram_Dewitt-VA.html
Late afternoon, April 1, 1865. Confederate infantrymen waited behind rude, muddy earthworks lining the White Oak Road. Young Colonel William R.J. Pegram tended to his artillery: three guns in this field, three others farther to the west (your righ…