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Petersburg Main Unit
Five Forks Unit
Federal Picket Line
City Point

An Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the
Main Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia

Frontmatter
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Management Summary

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Acknowledgments

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Tables

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Figures

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Plates (not included on web)

Table of Contents (below)

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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Geographical Setting
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Topography: Terraces and Tributaries

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Soils

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Wildlife Habitat

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Hunters, Gatherers, and Cultivators

Chapter Three: Paleoenvironment and Prehistoric Occupation
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Paleoenvironment and Prehistoric Overview

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Recorded Sites within and near the Main Unit

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Temporal Patterns near the Main Unit

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Topographic Settings of Prehistoric Occupations
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Creek settings

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Ridge of slope above creek

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Terrace over or on creek

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Ridge or terrace at head of creek

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Terrace of slope at confluence of creek and tributary

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Ridge or knoll above or between tributaries

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Swamp settings

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Bluff over or between major rivers

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Sample Units

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Probabilistic Survey

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Potential Sampling Strata in the Main Unit
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Harrison and Poor creeks

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Intertributary on the Sunderland Terrace

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Intertributary on Wicomico and Chowan terraces

Chapter Four: Historic Occupation
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Historic Overview

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Map Chronology

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Pre-Civil War Maps

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Civil War Maps

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Maps of the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Historic Dwellings and Plantations within the Main Unit

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Estates Adjacent to the Main Unit

Chapter Five: A Summary of Historic Sites and Earthworks
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Areas within the Main Unit
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Northeast

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Southeast

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Central

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Western

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Northeastern Area Earthworks and Sites 
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Jordan house site

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Friend house site

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House on terrace above Harrison Creek

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Prince George Court House and Jordan's Point roads

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Boundary lane

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Confederate earthworks- the Dimmock line

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Dimmock Battery 4 (site)

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Dimmock Battery 5

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Dimmock Battery 6 (site)

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Dimmock Battery 7

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Dimmock Battery 8 (later Union Fort Friend)

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Dimmock Battery 9 (site)

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Union encampment area

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World War I works

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Southeastern Area Earthworks and Sites
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Dunn house site

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Gibbons house site

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Dimmock Battery 10 (site)

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Dimmock Battery 11 (site)

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Dimmock Battery 12

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Dimmock Battery 13

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Union encampment areas

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World War I works

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Central Area Earthworks and Sites
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Hare house site

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Taylor house site

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Prince George Court House Road

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Farm lane from Prince George Court House Road to Shands house lane

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Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad

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Confederate Harrison Creek line

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Confederate Poor Creek line

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Colquitt's Salient

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Gracie's Salient

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Union earthworks

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Fort Stedman

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Fort Haskell

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Fort Morton (site)

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Battery XVI

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Union encampments

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Secondary earthworks behind Union main siege line

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Nineteenth or twentieth-century boundary? marker

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Twentieth-century developments

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Western Area Earthworks and Sites
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Griffith house site

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Sussex Road trace

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Confederate siege line

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Confederate Elliott's Salient or the Crater

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Union picket line

Chapter Six: An Assessment of Archaeological Resources
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Project Origins

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Prehistoric Evidence

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Historic Domestic Sites and Potential

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Historic Military Sites and Potential
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Dimmock line

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Harrison Creek line

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Confederate siege line

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Union siege line and secondary works

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Issues and Concerns

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Thematic Contexts, Associated Property Types, and Research Questions

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Final Thoughts

References

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