5 Questions: Revered Ground at Pamplin Park

About 4:30 a.m. on April 2, 1865, the Army of the Potomac’s 6th Corps breached the Confederate defenses near Petersburg, Va., ending a bloody 10-month stalemate. The Confederate capital of Richmond had to be evacuated the next day, and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia surrendered a week later at Appomattox Court House. The …

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