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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	359
Rive's Salient. Fort Morton. Fort Rice. Fort Sedgwick.     Thence the line turned in a westerly direction for four miles: Fort Mahone. Fort Walker. Pegram's Battery.     Thence they turned north to the Appomattox river for two miles: Fort Lee. Fort Baldwin. Fort Gregg.     Gen. Grant had another line about a mile and a half south of Fort Lee, which included Forts Conary, Fisher, Welch, Gregg, (2d) Wheaton, Urmston, Tracy, Keene, and Wadsworth on the Halifax road.     Grant also had another intrenched line south of the Fort Conary and Fort Wadsworth line, of the distance of half a mile, whereon was situated the Peebles' Farm. These forts were Forts Siebert, Clarke, and Dushane, the latter being four miles form Ream's Station.     South of Fort Mahone, and east of the Halifax road and the Weldon Railroad. Lee had intrechments but no forts, while Grant had Forts Howard, Alexander Hays, Davis, Prescott, Stevenson, McMahon and Davison.     Grant had another line east of the Jerusalem plank road which ran south from Petersburg; they were Forts Blaisdell, Patrick, Kelly and Ross.     Lee also had a line of intrenchments about six miles in length, running southwest from Fort Lee on the southeast side of the Boydton plank road, and which extended up to Hatcher's Run; and still another line at Five Forks on the White Oak road.     Petersburg being the central point we give the distances to the important points which appear in all histories.     South, to Glove Tavern, 4 miles; Ream's Station, 10; Rowanty Creek, where it crosses the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, 12; Nottoway Creek, on same railroad, 25; Jarrett's Station, 30. Southwest, along the Boydton plank road; to Hatcher's Run, 8 miles; Gravelly Run, 12; Dinwiddie Court House, 15.

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