Five Forks • Tour the Battlefield • The Armies • Battle Maps
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Visitor Center • Stop 1 • Stop 2 • Stop 3 • Stop 4 • Stop 5

Stop Three on the Five Forks Battlefield Auto Tour is the Five Forks Intersection.

A National Park Visitor Information Center was in a small building on the west side of the intersection. The building was removed when the new Information Center was completed a short distance south on Courthouse Road.

The Five Forks intersection was Grant’s Strategic objective. The Southside Railroad is less than three miles to the north from here on Courthouse Road (known as Ford’s Road during the battle).

This was the center of the Confederate defences. Three cannon under Colonel Pegram reinforced the Confederate infantry here. The line was able to hold off attacks by Union cavalry advancing up Courthouse Road, called Dinwiddie Court House Road at the time of the Civil War. But Union infantry attacked from the flank and the rear. The Confederate position collapseed in a flurry of confused fighting that left Pegram mortally wounded.

A small wooden marker a short distance away in front of a small set of fence rails shows where Pegram is believed to have fallen.

Two monuments and two wayside markers are at the intersection, along with a simple marker labelled, “Pegram.”

Battle of Five Forks monument
Five Forks Registered National Historic Battlefield monument
Death of Pegram wayside marker
Digging In wayside marker

Map and directions to Stop Three on the Five Forks Auto Tour

Stop Three on the Auto Tour is the Five Forks intersection. White Oak Road, Court House Road, and Wheeler’s Pond Road come together here. The intersection is 2.6 miles south of US 460 on Court House Road (County Road 627) and 6 miles west of US 1 on White Oak Road (County Road 613). (37°08’24.1″N 77°36’39.0″W)

Directions to the next stop on the Auto Tour:
Turn right out of the parking area onto Courthouse road and then right again to head west on White Oak Road for 1 mile. The parking area for Stop 4 is on the left.