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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...
...Civil War movie Cold Mountain, based on Charles Frazier's best-selling novel, opens with the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg in 1864, when Union forces dug a 500-ft. tunnel, packed it with 8,000 lbs. of gunpowder and blew up the Confederate line, creating a huge crater that became a deathtrap for their own troops...
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...
...military-intelligence people so that we can track down and kill the very people you are writing about? Do you really believe that "the story" is more important than the lives of the U.S. troops and the overall success of the coalition's mission in Iraq? Lee Self St. Petersburg...
...military-intelligence people so we can track down and kill the very people you are writing about? Do you really believe that "the story" is more important than the lives of the U.S. troops and the overall success of the coalition's mission in Iraq? LEE SELF St. Petersburg...