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gptkbp:instanceOf
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historical event
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gptkbp:aftermath
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End_of_the_Civil_War
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gptkbp:casualties
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High casualties on both sides
High for both sides
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gptkbp:commanded
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gptkb:General_Ulysses_S._Grant
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gptkbp:commander
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gptkb:General_Robert_E._Lee
gptkb:General_Ulysses_S._Grant
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gptkbp:date
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April 2, 1865
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gptkbp:duration
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Nine months
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gptkbp:electionYear
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End_of_Confederate_resistance_in_Virginia
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gptkbp:fightingStyle
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Siege
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Surrender_of_Lee's_Army
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gptkbp:historicalFigures
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gptkb:General_William_T._Sherman
gptkb:General_John_F._Reynolds
gptkb:General_P.G.T._Beauregard
gptkb:General_George_Crook
gptkb:General_John_C._Pemberton
gptkb:General_John_M._Schofield
gptkb:General_Stephen_D._Lee
gptkb:General_Winfield_Scott_Hancock
gptkb:General_Jubal_Early
gptkb:General_Ambrose_Burnside
gptkb:General_George_H._Thomas
gptkb:General_Henry_W._Halleck
gptkb:General_John_B._Gordon
gptkb:General_John_B._Magruder
gptkb:General_A.P._Hill
gptkb:General_John_A._McClernand
gptkb:General_Richard_H._Anderson
gptkb:General_Fitzhugh_Lee
gptkb:General_John_C._Breckinridge
gptkb:General_William_S._Rosecrans
gptkb:General_Edward_O.C._Ord
gptkb:General_Braxton_Bragg
gptkb:General_Joseph_E._Johnston
gptkb:General_Joseph_Hooker
gptkb:General_Philip_Sheridan
gptkb:General_William_H._Seward
gptkb:General_William_Mahone
gptkb:General_John_A._Logan
gptkb:General_Richard_S._Ewell
gptkb:General_William_B._Franklin
gptkb:General_John_Bell_Hood
gptkb:General_George_Pickett
gptkb:General_George_Meade
gptkb:General_John_S._Mosby
gptkb:General_John_G._Parke
gptkb:General_John_G._Foster
gptkb:General_Philip_Kearny
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gptkbp:historicalImpact
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Shifted momentum to Union forces
Led_to_the_surrender_at_Appomattox
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gptkbp:historicalPeriod
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Photographs
Documentary films
Oral histories
Academic journals
State archives
Official records
Civil War reenactments
Documentary series
Government documents
Historical analyses
Newspaper articles
Battlefield maps
Military reports
Memoirs of participants
Personal diaries
Books on Civil War history
Battlefield preservation efforts
Letters from soldiers
Post-war interviews
Military history websites
National_Park_Service_records
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gptkbp:historicalSignificance
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Turning_point_in_the_Civil_War
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Union victory at Petersburg
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gptkbp:involved
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gptkb:Confederate_Army
gptkb:Union_Army
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gptkbp:keyEvent
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gptkb:Breakthrough_at_Petersburg
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Petersburg,_Virginia
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gptkbp:militaryRank
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Union victory
Overland Campaign
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gptkbp:notableFigures
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gptkb:General_William_T._Sherman
gptkb:General_Ambrose_Burnside
gptkb:General_Benjamin_Butler
gptkb:General_John_B._Gordon
gptkb:General_A.P._Hill
gptkb:General_Richard_H._Anderson
gptkb:General_Edward_O.C._Ord
gptkb:General_Philip_Sheridan
gptkb:General_William_Mahone
gptkb:General_George_Meade
gptkb:General_John_G._Parke
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gptkbp:opposedBy
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gptkb:General_Robert_E._Lee
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gptkbp:partOf
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gptkb:American_Civil_War
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gptkbp:precededBy
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gptkb:Battle_of_the_Crater
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gptkbp:resultedIn
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gptkb:Surrender_of_Confederate_forces
gptkb:Fall_of_Richmond
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gptkbp:significance
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Decisive Union victory
Led_to_the_fall_of_Richmond
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gptkbp:strategicGoals
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Control of supply lines
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gptkbp:tactics
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Siege warfare
Trench_warfare
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