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A. Wilson Greene
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 for Petersburg, the key to the Confe
Autor:
Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
The Journal of the Civil War Era. 12:132-134
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https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2022.0015
https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2022.0015
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
This chapter discusses the strategic context and operational conduct of the military events around Petersburg, Virginia, between June and August 1864. The Petersburg Campaign involved the principal armies of both the United States and the Confederacy
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190903053.013.32
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190903053.013.32
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
From late June to mid-July 1864, the period between Grant’s Second and Third Petersburg Offensives, soldiers on both sides experienced hardships caused by drought and deluge, enervating heat, and particularly for the Confederates, an unreliable die
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0009
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0009
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
This chapter chronicles the complex movement of the Union army from its Cold Harbor trenches outside of Richmond to and across the James River. Federal engineers constructed a massive pontoon bridge across the James to facilitate the army’s crossin
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0002
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0002
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher
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 for Petersburg, the key to the Confe
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::4f4706031ec577307b0e30ed58265d9d
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.001.0001
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
During the lull in the fighting after the Second Petersburg Offensive, the 48th Pennsylvania began building a mine shaft ending underneath a major Confederate fort. The Pennsylvanians completed their tunnel in late July and packed it with 8,000 pound
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0010
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0010
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
This chapter describes the combat on June 16 and 17, 1864 around Petersburg. As fresh Union units arrived, they launched a series of uncoordinated assaults against the new Confederate defenses prepared overnight. The Rebels lost ground but managed in
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0004
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0004
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
This chapter follows the fighting at the Battle of the Crater from the commencement of the Confederate counterattacks through the end of the engagement. Once the Union assaults had run their course without achieving a significant breakthrough, Genera
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0012
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0012
Autor:
A. Wilson Greene
Publikováno v:
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
The Battle of the Crater remains the best-known episode of the entire Petersburg Campaign. This chapter describes the Union attacks at this engagement, beginning with the explosion of their mine that left a huge crater where a key Confederate fort ha
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638577.003.0011