Siege of Petersburg | Wikipedia audio article
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Siege of Petersburg


00:01:30 1 Background
00:01:39 1.1 Military situation
00:06:37 2 Opposing forces
00:06:46 2.1 Union
00:10:00 2.2 Confederate
00:11:59 2.3 Comparison between Union and Confederate armies
00:13:21 2.4 Role of African Americans
00:13:48 3 Initial attempts to capture Petersburg
00:13:59 3.1 Butler's assault (June 9)
00:17:06 3.2 Meade's assaults (June 15–18,1864)
00:24:09 4 Initial attempts to cut the railroads (June 21–30)
00:25:05 4.1 Jerusalem Plank Road (June 21–23)
00:27:26 4.2 Wilson-Kautz Raid (June 22 – July 1)
00:33:59 5 First Battle of Deep Bottom (July 27–29)
00:37:01 6 The Crater (July 30)
00:41:42 7 Second Deep Bottom (August 14–20)
00:45:52 8 Operations against the Weldon Railroad
00:46:02 8.1 Globe Tavern (August 18–21)
00:49:18 8.2 Second Reams Station (August 25)
00:53:16 9 Beefsteak Raid (September 14–17)
00:55:25 10 Union offensives, late September
00:55:35 10.1 New Market Heights (September 29–30)
00:56:23 10.2 Peebles Farm (September 30 – October 2)
00:57:39 11 Actions near Richmond, October
00:57:49 11.1 Darbytown and New Market Roads (October 7)
00:58:26 11.2 Darbytown Road (October 13)
00:58:57 11.3 Fair Oaks and Darbytown Road (October 27–28)
00:59:37 12 Boydton Plank Road (October 27–28)
01:00:31 13 Hatcher's Run (February 5–7, 1865)
01:01:46 14 Confederate breakout attempt at Fort Stedman (March 25)
01:05:55 15 Aftermath
01:07:41 16 Classifying the campaigns
01:08:30 17 Battlefield preservation
01:09:42 18 See also



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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, 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 usually surrounded and all supply lines are cut off, nor was it strictly limited to actions against Petersburg. The campaign consisted of nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended over 30 miles (48 km) from the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, to around the eastern and southern outskirts of Petersburg. Petersburg was crucial to the supply of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army and the Confederate capital of Richmond. Numerous raids were conducted and battles fought in attempts to cut off the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. Many of these battles caused the lengthening of the trench lines.
Lee finally gave in to the pressure and abandoned both cities in April 1865, leading to his retreat and surrender at Appomattox Court House. The Siege of Petersburg foreshadowed the trench warfare that was common in World War I, earning it a prominent position in military history. It also featured the war's largest concentration of African American troops, who suffered heavy casualties at such engagements as the Battle of the Crater and Chaffin's Farm.