Название: A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
Автор: A. Wilson Greene
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 1469638576
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 729
Размер: 18,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond.
Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers and civilians alike. After failing to bull his way into Petersburg, Grant concentrated on isolating the city from its communications with the rest of the surviving Confederacy, stretching Lee's defenses to the breaking point.