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VANITY Life is Back to Normal Here
This past weekend was Petersburg, Alaska s Little Norway Festival. We took a stroll around town and shot some video. Then we went out to Sandy Beach for lunch with friends from other cruising boats in the harbor. This is the real world we live in. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/fscOHDMzs-E
TOPICS: While Petersburg experienced the same initial panic as everyone else, we are on an island in Southeast Alaska. A bit isolated. The population on the island is about 3000. We had about half a dozen people present symptoms early on. There have been under a hundred total positive tests since this began, mostly travelers arriving from the lower forty eight. No one has been hospitalized. No one has died. No one has even been seriously ill and no one has been actually sick for months.
SUMMARY The Dimmock Line was a series of fifty-five artillery batteries and connected infantry earthworks that were constructed between 1862 and 1864 in a ten-mile arc around Petersburg during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The earthen fortifications were built using Confederate soldiers and enslaved laborers and covered lands east, south, and west of Petersburg. They were constructed to protect the city’s industry and railroads in the event that Petersburg was attacked. Union troops finally attacked Petersburg directly and elements of the Dimmock Line fell to them in mid-June 1864, which began the Petersburg Campaign.
Building the Dimmock Line
Early in the spring of 1862, Petersburg’s Common Council created a committee to investigate the need for defenses to be constructed around the city. Little came of this measure, however. Work on a defense line began that summer when Major General Daniel H. Hill used troops from North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia to construct