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Confederate Battery 5 is Stop One on the Petersburg Eastern Front Auto Tour. It is also the site of the National Park Visitor Center. (37°14’37.3″N 77°21’24.4″W; map)
Tour Stop One is the beginning of a loop trail to Battery 5 and to the siege mortar ‘Dictator’
Battery 5 was captured during the initial Union attack on Petersburg on June 15, 1864, and was incorporated into the Union fortifications.
Several markers are around the Visitor Center and on the loop trail to Battery 5 and the Dictator:
The Visitor Center is at Stop One of the Auto Tour
Directions to the next stop on the Petersburg Eastern Front Auto Tour:
Continue south on Siege Road about 0.6 mile. Stop Two is on the right.