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Good morning ladies and gentlemen. We thank you this morning for being with us here at Petersburg National battlefield on the 150th anniversary of battle of the crater. My name is chris price. For those of you who were with us this morning at 5 30 we thank you again and welcome you here to the park. I was remarking a few minutes ago, much like it was for the soldiers 150 years ago who were in the oberlin campaign that started in 1864, it has been a long road to petersburg. We started this 150th event for three parks on may 3, at spotsylvania courthouse. We have moved south ever since. It has been quite a feat. It is the first time three parks within a process of these commemorations have shared programming where we have tried to make a continual program of the oberlin campaign rather than look at it as the wilderness, spotsylvania, that this was one continual process for the soldiers 150 years ago. For some of you in the audience we have senior faces before. We know you have been on th

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