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| In the Petersburg National Battlefield where the "battle of the crater" took place on July 30, 1864. Union troops dug a tunnel under Confederate lines and filled it with explosives. The resulting expolsion created a crater 170 feet long 60 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Advancing Union troops became traped in the crater and were slaughtered, almost 6,000 Union soldiers were killed. |
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| Website : www.virginia.gov |
 Capital
: Richmond |
 Highest
point : Mount
Rogers, 5,729 feet |
 Area : 42,769 square miles,
35th largest state. |
 Population : 7,078,515
(2000 Census) |
 Motto
: Sic
semper tyannis (Thus always to tyrants)
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 Admitted to
Union : June
25, 1788 |
 State
Song : "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" |
 State Bird : Cardinal |
 State Flower : Flowering Dogwood |
 State Tree : Flowering Dogwood |
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