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The nine and a half months of fighting around Petersburg is commemorated by only a handful of monuments scattered across the 576 square miles of contested land. About half of these monuments are in the Eastern Front unit of the battlefield, and a quarter are clustered around The Crater.
The monuments fall into three groups. Some honor units, most of whom saw heavy fighting and high casualties, as well as a regiment of Pennsylvania miners who carried out a unique battlefield exploit.
A second group commemorates places. They were scenes of violent conflict where men bled and died or just endured months of terrible hardship. They were important enough that the men who had experienced it carved the names into stone with a simple request for future generations – “Remember this place.”
The last group honors individuals – three Confederate generals and one of the founders of the National Park Service.
Units
- 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment
- 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment
- 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
- 48th Pennsylvania – Crater of Mine
- 48th Pennsylvania – Entrance to Mines
- Hagood’s South Carolina Brigade
- Hartranft’s Division
- Mahone’s Virginia Brigade
- State of Massachusetts
- State of South Carolina
- United States Colored Troops
Places
- 100th Anniversary Battle of the Crater
- Colquitt’s Salient
- Fort Gregg
- Fort Stedman
- Gracie’s Salient
- Old Men and Boys