Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18 1864
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781612347127
Subjects: Virginia, history
Description: "The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland Campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outrmanoeuvred Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War."--Book jacket.