Big Bangs, Poor Planning & the Siege of Petersburg | Odd Salon SIEGE
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2020-09-04

After weeks of laying siege to Petersburg, the gateway to the Confederate Capital of Richmond in the summer of 1864, a plucky band of soldiers from Pennsylvania, who were miners by trade, came up with a way to shake things up, and shake things up they did. What followed, would be for ever remembered as what NOT to do when in a siege.

Marcelo Pontin ~ Big Bangs, Poor Planning & the Siege of Petersburg

Odd Salon SIEGE: tales of blockades vs. mighty walls, trebuchets and catapults, mercenaries, munitions, and strategies for deadly games of waiting
 
Recorded and mixed live at Public Works, San Francisco, CA, on May 3rd, 2017.

Curated by Annetta Black 
Camera: Ronny Preciado 
Edit/Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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