The great Civil War siege of Petersburg has given the City international notoriety, yet during the Revolution major fighting finally came to Virginia. Petersburg was in the thick of it. This is not surprising as General Washington had designated the City as one of the major supply depots for the Commonwealth and because Petersburg lay across the primary north-south communications line between the states, that route that follows modern day U.S. Highway 1.
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