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December 30, 2016
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — A bill recently signed by President Barack Obama authorizes Virginia's sprawling Petersburg National Battlefield to more than triple in size, which would create the nation's largest protected battlefield at a climactic site in the Confederacy's demise.
Legislation in a defense policy bill authorizes adding more than 7,000 acres to the park. Prolonged trench warfare in the Union's Petersburg campaign claimed tens of thousands of lives, precipitating the fall of Richmond and Gen. Robert E. Lee's 1865 surrender.
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