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The result is a solid battle study, one that any Siege of Petersburg aficionado will want to own.”—Brett Schulte, editor of The Siege of Petersburg Online “For serious students of the Petersburg campaign of 1864, a new and exciting history of the battles of June 15–18 is now available. . . .
Bearss covered the battles on the Petersburg front - nothing north of the James River and nothing concerning events outside the actual fighting (eg: Hampton's cattle raid). Greene provides a much more thorough, all-encompassing account. That being said, Bearss' Petersburg work was not originally intended for commercial publication.
Overstatement of Rebel Casualties at the Second Battle of Petersburg? The attempt to carry the Petersburg works 15th-18th June largely failed. The Federals were badly repulsed, despite capturing some of the works early on. The Federals lost 16,569 in the second half of June 1864, which includes the Jerusalem Plank Road fighting.
SIXTIETH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, Before Petersburg, Va., August 9, 1864. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by this regiment in the operations before Petersburg: We left Cold Harbor with the division on the 12th of June, crossed the James River on the evening of the 15th, and marched all night and the next ...
Apr 4, 2014. #1. On April 28th, 1865, Maj. Gen. John Gibbon and fourteen selected men who had distinguished themselves in the capture of Fort Gregg at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, preceded to Washington, D.C. to turn in captured Confederate flags. They were being presented to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in a War Department ceremony and the ...
The battle did extend the Petersburg line a few miles to further stretch Lee’s thin lines, but the stalemate continued for six more weeks before Grant’s forces finally sent Lee racing west with the remnants of his army. The chase ended in April 1865 when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. * Civil War Trust Battle Map.
Sep 23, 2009. #1. Ever since Harry Smeltzer started his Bull Runnings blog/site focusing on the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), I’ve wanted to do something similar for the Petersburg Campaign. I’m happy to say I’ve finally started on that project. The new web site is called Beyond the Crater: The Civil War Petersburg Campaign Online.
A. Wilson Greene (Author) The University of North Carolina Press (June 11, 2018) Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle...
Union victories at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865 and the Third Battle of Petersburg, often called the Breakthrough at Petersburg, on April 2, 1865, opened Petersburg and Richmond to imminent capture. Lee ordered the evacuation of Confederate forces from both Petersburg and Richmond on the night of April 2–3 before Grant's army ...
Gettysburg was a battle, Petersburg was a siege. Gettysburg was a three-day battle and a clear cut victory for one side, whereas the Petersburg misery dragged on for months. Americans have short attention spans. Gettysburg went a long way toward deciding the fate of the Confederacy. That fate was decided long before the siege started at Petersburg.