Thanksgiving in the Trenches Thanksgiving in 1864 was what families at home and soldiers in the field could make of it. For most at Petersburg it was nothing of the holiday we now know. Visit the Eastern Front Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield on Saturday, November 21, 2009 and get a glimpse, by lantern light, of what this day of thanks meant to those caught up in the siege. more...
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Did You Know?
From the summer of 1862 until the spring of 1863, Confederate Captain Charles Dimmock appealed to slaveholders to hire their enslaved people, and also hired free black laborers to dig the ten-mile defense line around the City of Petersburg. The defenses became known as the Dimmock Line.