American Civil War: Defeat at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Petersburg" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Third Battle of Petersburg">Third Battle of Petersburg</a> forces the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Army of Northern Virginia">Army of Northern Virginia</a> and the Confederate government to abandon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>.<sup about="#mwt45" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_2#cite_note-7" id="mwSw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTA">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt42" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBowery2014">Bowery, Charles R. (2014). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bxGJBAAAQBAJ" id="mwBxE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBxI">The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, 1864-65</i></a>. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger. pp.<span id="mwBxM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>142–145. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBxQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBxU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781440800436" id="mwBxY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781440800436"><bdi id="mwBxc">9781440800436</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt42" class="Z3988" id="mwBxg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Richmond-Petersburg+Campaign%2C+1864-65&amp;rft.place=Santa+Barbara%2C+Calif.&amp;rft.pages=142-145&amp;rft.pub=Praeger&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.isbn=9781440800436&amp;rft.aulast=Bowery&amp;rft.aufirst=Charles+R.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DbxGJBAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+2"></span></span>