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But what really drives the war home
are customized audio-tours that let us
tune in to the experiences — and the
ultimate fate —of our personal "com-
rade," chosen from among a group of 13
soldiers who recorded their thoughts and
exploits in letters, journals or diaries.
Donning headphones at the exhibit
entrance, Jenny follows the exploits of
a 13-year-old New York boy who
enlisted in the Union Army without
his father's knowledge and was made a
drummer because of his young age.
At four stops along the way, I hear
a voice representing my 21-year-old
Confederate soldier, Private Eli Pinson
Lander, who passed close to his
Georgia farm during the Battle of
Chickamauga.
Tempted to leave ranks to visit his
family, he wrote his mother that he
decided against it, choosing instead to
"cleave to the cause of our bleedin'
country to drive the oppressors from
our soil. . . I don't want to be a dis-
grace to myself nor my relations." He
died soon after of typhoid fever.
Back outside, inspecting the historic
earthworks, we hear more poignant tales
from the desperate Battle of the
Breakthrough, April 2, 1865, that pro-
duced 1,100 Union casualties in 15
minutes of hand-to-hand combat with
clubs, bayonets and sabers.
Strolling along the actual assault
line, we ponder the fates of the two
Prentiss brothers from Baltimore who
fought on opposite sides, reconciled
on the battlefield as they lay wounded
and suffering and then died together
in a nearby hospital where a third
brother was serving as a Union chap-
lain.
Though crucial in ending the
Petersburg siege and the Civil War
itself, the Breakthrough battle is cer-
tainly less well-known than the
Gettysburgs, Vicksburgs and
Antietams. "It was just one of those
little skirmishes," says Pamplin Park
interpreter Al Hahn, "that sort of gets
forgotten in time."
But it's one that our family, at least,
will long remember.

— For information about Petersburg
and its Civil War attractions, call (800)
368-3595 or go online to www.peters-
burg-va.org. The pay-one-price
Petersburg Campaign Pass provides
access to nine Civil Wzr attractions.