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June 18 – The Siege Begins

At the end of the day on June 18 Grant called off the direct assaults and ordered the army to entrench. The siege that Robert E. Lee dreaded had begun.

Map of the strategic situation at Petersburg, Virginia on June 18, 1864, the Beginning of the Siege of Petersburg

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