National Park Civil War Series: The Petersburg Campaign

Company

National Park Service

Price

$12.99

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Official Store

In mid-1864, to circumnavigate a direct assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set his sights instead on Petersburg—a vital supply hub containing 5 railroad lines only 25 miles south. For nine and a half months, Petersburg fell under siege, as men on both sides huddled in trenches and dodged bullets and mortar shells, their only reprieve "salt pork and corn meal, burned beans, and bad coffee." In this revised edition of The Petersburg Campaign, author Trudeau details the longest military siege in the history of American warfare…