
In this Jan. 14, 2004, file photo, Battlefield historian and tour guide Jimmy Blankenship is photographed near the crater at the Petersburg National Battlefield, in Petersburg, Va. Virginia’s Petersburg National Battlefield, a climactic site in the collapse of the Confederacy in the Civil War, has been cleared for a huge expansion under a new law that would authorize it to become the nation’s largest protected battlefield. (AP Photo/Lisa Billings, File)
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