Thanksgiving in the Trenches Thanksgiving in 1864 was what families at home and soldiers in the field could make of it. For most at Petersburg it was nothing of the holiday we now know. Visit the Eastern Front Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield on Saturday, November 21, 2009 and get a glimpse, by lantern light, of what this day of thanks meant to those caught up in the siege. more...
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Did You Know?
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.