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Captions for each picture left to right:

1- A Portrait of General John B. Gordon.
SInce he proved himself as a stong leader and fighter in the Wildernedd Campaign
and at Spotsylvania, Generl Robert E. Lee placed him in command of an attack against
Grant's center at the Siege of Petersburg.

2- These were the first wagon trains entering Petersburg, Virginia after the siege.
This was the city through which all but one rail line passed to Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.

3- The bomb-proof quarters of Fort Sedgwick in Petersburg, Virginia, also known as "Fort Hell."

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