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Waveform Audio File Format  |  2000-10-09  |  2.2 MB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  1 minute, 45 seconds
Transcription: Richmond Battlefield National Battlefield Park, about 110 miles south of Washington, D.C., preserves the sites of a number of scattered battlefields in the area of the Confederate capital. The headquarters building east of downtown Richmond is located on the site of Chimborazo Hospital. During the war, this became a vast complex of wooden buildings where thousands of sick and wounded Confederate soldiers were treated. At Brewery's Bluff, high above the James River and only seven miles below Richmond, the Confederates erected powerful batteries. Starting in 1862, the guns prevented the passage ...