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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)

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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