<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> troops led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philip Sheridan">Philip Sheridan</a> decisively <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Forks" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Five Forks">defeat</a> Confederate troops led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pickett" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Pickett">George Pickett</a>, cutting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Army of Northern Virginia">Army of Northern Virginia</a>'s last supply line during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Petersburg" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Petersburg">Siege of Petersburg</a>.<sup about="#mwt51" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_1#cite_note-7" id="mwTQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTg">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt48" class="citation book cs1" id="mwB7w"><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vOsnedbtySMC&amp;pg=PA45" id="mwB70" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB74">Infantry</i></a>. U.S. Army Infantry School. June 2011. p.<span id="mwB78" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>45.</cite><span about="#mwt48" class="Z3988" id="mwB8A" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Infantry&amp;rft.pages=45&amp;rft.pub=U.S.+Army+Infantry+School&amp;rft.date=2011-06&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvOsnedbtySMC%26pg%3DPA45&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+1"></span></span>