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On the ground before you, the first major attacks against Petersburg occurred, and this bloodletting marked the beginning of nine months of siege. Battery 5 of the Confederate Dimmock Line was captured by the Federals on June 15, 1864, and the position of the famous Union mortar, the "Dictator," is also here.
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