A paved road cuts through a green grass field, with a few trees with yellow leaves, the rest green.

Eastern Front Audio Driving and Walking Tour

Petersburg National Battlefield

  • 2 - 3 hours
  • 16 tour stops

This four-mile driving tour of the Eastern Front has eight stops and some short, interpretive walking trails. The initial assaults that failed to capture the city and the encounters that followed shaped the siege’s history on the Eastern Front. Soldiers along this front suffered in trenches under constant artillery and rifle fire in lines only yards and sometimes feet apart. Nowhere else along the siege lines were the opposing armies this close.

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