A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill by Greene, A. Wilson
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill by Greene, A. Wilson

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most...
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Author: A. Wilson Greene
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Language: English
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A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill by Greene, A. Wilson

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

$116.49
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill by Greene, A. Wilson

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

$116.49
Author: A. Wilson Greene
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehensive history of the decisive campaign in the eastern theater. In this second of three volumes, A. Wilson Greene narrates the critical months from August through October 1864, during which Ulysses S. Grant's army group launched three major offensives against Robert E. Lee's defenses around Petersburg and the Confederate capital in Richmond. The Confederates counterpunched after each Union advance and conducted a spectacular cavalry raid that netted almost 2,500 cattle from Federal grazing grounds. But as winter approached, Grant had captured one of Lee's primary supply routes and extended the lines around Petersburg and Richmond to some thirty-five miles.

Supported by thirty-four detailed maps, Greene's narrative chronicles these bloody engagements using many previously unpublished primary accounts from common soldiers and ranking officers alike. The struggle for Petersburg is often characterized as a siege, but Greene's narrative demonstrates that it was dynamic, involving maneuver and combat equal in intensity to that of any major Civil War operation.

Author: A. Wilson Greene
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/08/2025
Pages: 712
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.51lbs
Size: 9.39h x 6.47w x 2.11d
ISBN: 9781469684819


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2025 pg. 108

About the Author
Prizewinning author A. Wilson Greene spent a forty-four-year career in public history, twenty-four of them working on the Petersburg battlefields. His first volume in this trilogy, From the Crossing of the James to the Crater, was published in 2018. He lives in Walden, Tennessee.
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