With Confederate defeat at Five Forks on April 1, Grant and Meade ordered a general assault against the Petersburg. After dark, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. Grant had achieved one of the major military objectives of the war: the capture of Petersburg, which led to the fall of Richmond, the Capitol of the Confederacy.
Location
| State | VA |
| Latitude | 37.2279279 |
| Longitude | -77.4019267 |
