num_pages: 288
description: This title covers the series of battles leading up to the inevitable siege of Petersburg, including Drewry''s Bluff, Globe Tavern and Fort Harrison, and the siege itself, with its incessant trench warfare and and fighting along the James River.The loss in April 1865 of the railroad center at Petersburg, just south of Richmond, sealed the doom of the Confederacy. The campaign for Petersburg was a long siege operation of grueling trench warfare marked by bloody battles, incompetence, political " maneuvering and cowardice, It was the type of campaign that both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant had originally wanted to avoid. This dramatic narrative is supplemented by special charts covering strengths and losses for both sides, Confederate desertion rates, and statistics for the Civil War's other sieges. Sidebars discuss styles of command, the famous Crater explosion; the role of snipers and sharpshooters, and the campaign's no-quarter encounters between Southern whites and Union men of color.
language: English
title: The Petersburg Campaign: June 1864-April 1865
titlecomplete: The Petersburg Campaign: June 1864-April 1865
genres: Civil War, History, American Civil War, Civil War History
ratings_count: 15
series: Great Campaigns
publisher: Da Capo Press