Word: blakenship
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...sound of exploding gunpowder no longer roars across the grassy ravine nestled in Petersburg National Battlefield Park in central Virginia. But to hear park historian Jimmy Blakenship talk about the battle that took place there 140 years ago, you have to wonder whether he can still hear the blast's echoes. "[Ulysses S.] Grant said, 'It's the saddest affair I've witnessed in this war,'" Blakenship says with a shake of his graying head...
...Blakenship hopes more people will come to the park "now that the world knows that Petersburg, Virginia, exists." Civil War buffs, of course, will remember the battle long after Cold Mountain has gone...
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