The entrance to the Petersburg
National Battlefield Park, in Petersburg, VA. Here, over nine plus
months, US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac laid
siege to Petersburg, and Richmond. CS General Robert E. Lee, writing,
from the battlefield, near Fredericksburg, presciently wrote to President
Jefferson Davis, stating that if Grant were to get below Richmond, it would
only be a matter of time.
