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    Petersburg

    National Battlefield Virginia

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Biographies

FOLKS TO KNOW

During the Siege of Petersburg there were nearly 160,000 soldiers, several thousand support personnel, and tens of thousands of civilians caught up in this event. What follows are short biographies of some of those privates, officers, doctors, nurses, and local citizens who witnessed it, partook in it, and shaped its course.

MILITARY:
General Beauregard
Ambrose Burnside
Joshua Chamberlain
Decatur Dorsey
John Gordon
U.S. Grant
Winfield Hancock
Henry Heth
A.P. Hill
Rufus Ingalls
Bushrod Johnson
Robert E. Lee
William Mahone
George Pickett
Philip Sheridan
William Smith
Gouverneur Warren

MEDICAL:
Clara Barton
Dr. John Claiborne
Cornelia Hancock

CIVILIANS:
Jefferson Davis
Richard Eppes
Abraham Lincoln

Did You Know?

Brig. General Frederick Winthrop

Union Brevet Brigadier General Frederick Winthrop was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop's sixth great-grandson. Winthrop was mortally wounded at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865.
(Petersburg National Battlefield)