The Crater
Subtitle: Petersburg (Battleground America)
Publisher: Combined Publishing
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781580970525
Subjects: Military - United States; History; History - Military / War; History: American; United States - Civil War
First sentence: ON 20 JUNE 1864 THE UNION Army of the Potomac, roughly 100,000 men strong, was precisely where it needed to be: twenty miles south of the Confederate capital of Richmond outside of the city of Petersburg.