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Baltimore founded
The town of Baltimore is founded at Locust Point, where the Maryland colonial General Assembly established a shipping a port in 1706. The largest city in Maryland is named after Lord Baltimore, the first Governor of the Province of Maryland.
After detonating an underground mine below the Confederate lines at Petersburg, Union soldiers cannot exploit the hole in the Confederate lines in the Battle of the Crater. The failed Federal assault solidified the stalemate, and the Siege of Petersburg would continue for nine more months.
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