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The Richmond–Petersburg campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, [4] during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the siege of Petersburg , it was not a classic military siege , in which a city is encircled with fortifications blocking all routes of ...
The Wilson–Kautz Raid was a cavalry operation in south central Virginia in late June 1864, during the American Civil War.Occurring early in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, the raid was conducted by Union cavalry under Brigadier Generals James H. Wilson and August Kautz, who were ordered to cut railroads between Lynchburg, Virginia, and the vital Confederate rail supply center at Petersburg.
The Civil War Battlefield Guide [permanent dead link ]. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. ISBN 0-395-74012-6. Salmon, John S. The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. ISBN 0-8117-2868-4. Trudeau, Noah Andre. The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864 – April 1865. Baton ...
The 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (Siege of Petersburg) began when two corps of the Union Army of the Potomac, which were unobserved when leaving Cold Harbor at the end of the Overland Campaign, combined with the Union Army of the James outside Petersburg, but failed to seize the city from a small force of Confederate defenders at the Second Battle of Petersburg on June 15–18, 1864. [4]
The Battle of Petersburg was an unsuccessful Union assault against the earthworks fortification, the Dimmock Line, protecting the city of Petersburg, Virginia, June 9, 1864, [3] during the American Civil War. Because of the ragtag group of defenders involved, it is sometimes known as the Battle of Old Men and Young Boys.
Siege of Petersburg, capture of the Weldon Railroad, August 18–19 Map of Globe Tavern Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. At dawn on August 18, Warren advanced to the south through rain and over muddy roads, pushing aside Confederate pickets and a cavalry brigade, and reached the railroad at Globe Tavern around 9 a.m. Parts of the division under ...
Greene's book, Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (ISBN 9781572336100), was published by the University Tennessee Press in 2008. [19] Later that year, Greene received the Daniel M. and Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize for his Petersburg book. The Laney book award recognizes distinguished scholarship and writing on military ...
The Third Battle of Petersburg, also known as the Breakthrough at Petersburg or the Fall of Petersburg, was fought on April 2, 1865, south and southwest Virginia in the area of Petersburg, Virginia, at the end of the 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (sometimes called the Siege of Petersburg) and in the beginning stage of the Appomattox Campaign near the conclusion of the American Civil War.