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(Sunday, April 2, 1865; during the Third Battle of Petersburg, part of the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War) — The Union Army launched an assault on Confederate trenches and fortifications in Petersburg, Virginia, today, exposing or cutting the Confederate right flank, rear and remaining supply lines.

Confederate defenders were reduced by over 10,000 men killed, wounded, taken prisoner or in flight. Confederate Lieutenant General A.P. Hill was killed in the fighting.