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Petersburg, Virginia | This site features four award-winning museums, four historic homes, battlefield trails, costumed living history presentations, guided...
- Siege Museum
15 West Bank Street. Petersburg, VA 23803. United States....
- Poplar Grove National Cemetery
The cemetery was established in 1868 for Union soldiers who...
- Blandford Church and Cemetery
Blandford Church was built as an Anglican Church in 1735....
- Centre Hill Museum
In 1909, President William Howard Taft visited Centre Hill...
- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
After the battles of Appomattox Station on April 8, 1865,...
- Colonial Williamsburg
Known worldwide as the nation's largest living history...
- Petersburg Campaign
General Ulysses S. Grant’s spring campaign against General...
- Breakthrough
With the Confederate defeat at Five Forks on April 1st,...
- Siege Museum
15 West Bank Street. Petersburg, VA 23803. United States. Get Directions. Website. http://preservationpetersburg.org/explore_siege_museum.html. The civilian side of the ten-month siege of Petersburg is portrayed in exhibits and a film narrated by Petersburg native Joseph Cotton. Featured Content. Civil War | Museum.
Using an Orpheo digital device and guided by a personal “soldier comrade,” visitors follow the experiences of Civil War soldiers using interactive computers, videos, life-sized dioramas, more than 1,000 original objects, and the multi-sensory battlefield simulation, “Trial By Fire.”.
Featuring the engaging National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, Tudor Hall Plantation, a recreated Military Encampment, and some of the best preserved earthworks in existence, this 424-acre park relives the life and times of a soldier during America's "War Between the States."
Featuring the engaging National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, Tudor Hall Plantation, a recreated Military Encampment, and some of the best preserved earthworks in existence, this 424-acre park relives the life and times of a soldier during America's "War Between the States."