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Petersburg National Battlefield Park is the site of an important battle in the American Civil War. There is a visitor's center and multiple exhibitions on the site for visitors to learn more about the battle site.

At the Visitor Center of the Petersburg National Battlefields you can visit Battery 5 of the former defensive ring. Other stations such as trenches, forts or "the crater" are usually visited by car. The latter is particularly impressive. Union soldiers dug a mine over 500 feet below the Confederate lines and successfully detonated it. But they didn't use the gap to break through, but marveled at the huge crater