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    Petersburg

    National Battlefield Virginia

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Standards of Learning

The following standards of learning objectives appy to the state of Virginia only. Educators within the state can plan an educational visit to the Battlefield that will fulfill certain standards set by the state.

Prisoners of Petersburg

English: K.2, K.3, 1.1, 1.3, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
History and Social Sciences: K.1, 1.1, 1.2, 3.13, 4.1, 4.4, 4.7, 5.7, 5.9, 11.6, 11.17

Portrait of a Soldier

English: 3.1, 4.1, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
History and Social Sciences: 3.12, 3.13, 4.1, 4.4, 4.7, 5.3, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 11.6, 11.17

A City Under Siege

English: 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
History and Social Sciences: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10, 4.1, 4.2, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 11.6, 11.15, 11.17

Woe to the Wounded

English: 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
History and Social Sciences: 3.13, 4.4, 4.7, 5.7, 5.9

A Slave, A Plantation, A War

English: K.1, K.2, K.3, 1.1, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
History and Social Sciences: K.1, K.5, K.6, 1.1, 1.2, 2.9, 3.3, 3.7, 3.10, 3.13, 4.1, 4.4, 5.3, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 11.6, 11.17

Did You Know?

Richard Eppes, 1890s

Richard Eppes, owner of Appomattox Plantation, which is currently part of the Grant's HQ Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield, noted that it took 8,320 pounds of bacon each year to feed his 127 enslaved people in 1860.