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PETERSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
1539 HICKORY HILL ROAD
PETERSBURG, VA 23803, USA 

Website: http://www.nps.gov/pete/historyculture/poplar-grove-national-cemetery.htm

The cemetery was established in 1868 for Union soldiers who died during the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns. Of the 6,178 interments, 4,110 are unknown. Others are buried in the City Point National Cemetery in Hopewell. Most Confederate soldiers who died during the siege are buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg.

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Petersburg, Virginia | Adjacent to a church that serves as a Confederate memorial, this historic cemetery is the final resting place of 30,000 Confederate soldiers.
Petersburg National Battlefield
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Hatcher's Run Battlefield
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Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Virginia | This impressive and gorgeously landscaped cemetery contains the graves of President Jefferson Davis, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. George E. Pickett, and other Confederate notables, as well as 18, 000 Confederate soldiers.
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