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Petersburg Fortifications Map from Marker
Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: April 22, 2006
Caption: Petersburg Fortifications Map from Marker
Additional Description: After ten months of siege, Ulysses S. Grant's Union army (in blue) had almost cut off all railroad access to Robert E. Lee's Confederate army (in red). An elaborate maze of forts and trenches like the Federal army's Fort Morton encircled Petersburg. Now that spring was coming, it was time for Grant to press Lee's army once more.
Submitted: December 28, 2008, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p48068
File Size: 1.119 Megabytes

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