There are eight stops on a driving tour of the Eastern Front unit at Petersburg National Battlefield. The park brochure available at the Eastern Front Visitor Center has a map and basic information about each stop. Additional information is provided on wayside exhibits. If you walk the interpretive trails at the tour stops and read through all of the wayside exhibits, the tour takes about three hours to complete.
National Park Planner has created a virtual tour of the Eastern Front battlefield complete with plenty of photos of what you will see at each tour stop. Feel free to use this as an additional source of information as you drive around the battlefield. At the bottom of each tour stop page is a navigation menu that allows you to jump to the next or previous stop.
Stop 1: Confederate Battery 5
Stop 2: Confederate Battery 8
Stop 3: Confederate Battery 9
Stop 4: Harrison Creek
Stop 5: Fort Stedman
Stop 6: Fort Haskell
Stop 7: Fort Morton
Stop 8: The Crater
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Last updated on March 30, 2023