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significant had little to do with the casualties. On the second day of this two-day
campaign, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general
Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in central Virginia, thus making the
battle at Blakeley the last major battle of the Civil War.
More than a hundred years later, in 1974, the Alabama Historic Commission
placed the site on the National Register of Historic Places and the effort to pre-
serve the battle site began. Trails were built, breastworks were located, and in
1993 Congress designated the site a Class A Civil War Site. Three years later it
was added to the National Civil War Trail list. Be sure to pick up a brochure at the
entrance gate that describes the battle through numbered signs along the trail.
Within Historic Blakeley State Park's 3,800 acres are a total of 15 miles of
nature and historic trails. The trails cross one another so that you can form shorter
or longer loops to suit your schedule or what you want to see.
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