Author: J. Pinckney WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petersburg (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
History of the Crater and Ten Months Siege of Petersburg, Va
Author: J. Pinckney WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petersburg (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
History of the Crater and Ten Months Siege of Petersburg, Va
Author: J. Pickney WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petersburg (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
History of the Crater and Ten Months Siege of Petersburg, Va
Author: Remembering The Battle of the Crater
Author: Kevin M. LevinPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813140412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The battle of the Crater is known as one of the Civil War's bloodiest struggles -- a Union loss with combined casualties of 5,000, many of whom were members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) under Union Brigadier General Edward Ferrero. The battle was a violent clash of forces as Confederate soldiers fought for the first time against African American soldiers. After the Union lost the battle, these black soldiers were captured and subject both to extensive abuse and the threat of being returned to slavery in the South. Yet, despite their heroism and sacrifice, these men are often overlooked in public memory of the war. In Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War is Murder, Kevin M. Levin addresses the shared recollection of a battle that epitomizes the way Americans have chosen to remember, or in many cases forget, the presence of the USCT. The volume analyzes how the racial component of the war's history was portrayed at various points during the 140 years following its conclusion, illuminating the social changes and challenges experienced by the nation as a whole. Remembering The Battle of the Crater gives the members of the USCT a newfound voice in history.
The Battle of Petersburg
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the WarPublisher: Kraus Reprint. Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Petersburg 1864–65
Author: Ron FieldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472803051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Petersburg Campaign was the last great campaign fought in the eastern theater of the US Civil War and the last to see U.S Grant take on Robert E Lee. In 1864 General Ulysses S. Grant decided to strangle the life out of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by surrounding the city of Petersburg and cutting off General Robert E. Lee's supply lines. The ensuing siege would carry on for nearly ten months, involve 160,000 soldiers, and see a number of pitched battles including the Battle of the Crater, Reams Station, Hatcher's Run, and White Oak Road. After nearly ten months, Grant launched an attack that sent the Confederate army scrambling back to Appomattox Court House where it would soon surrender. Written by an expert on the American Civil War, this book examines the last clash between the armies of U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
In the Trenches at Petersburg
Author: Earl J. HessPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807882356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of siege to mining and countermining operations, the fashioning of wire entanglements and the laying of torpedo fields to impede attacks, and the construction of underground shelters to protect the men manning the works. In the Trenches at Petersburg humanizes the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle.
The Battle of the Crater in Front of Petersburg. July 30, 1864. A Memorable Day in History. An Address Delivered Before the A.P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans, Petersburg, Va., in That City, on the 20th of June, 1890
Author: George S 1837-1912 BernardPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014741080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
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The Petersburg Campaign
Author: Edwin BearssPublisher: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611211050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Accompanying these salient chapters are original maps by Civil War cartographer Steven Stanley, together with photos and illustrations. The result is a richer and deeper understanding of the major military episodes comprising the Petersburg Campaign.
Civil War Petersburg
Author: A. Wilson GreenePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Few wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. Nonetheless, the city has, until now, lacked an adequate military history, let alone a history of the civilian home front. The noted Civil War historian A. Wilson Greene now provides an expertly researched, eloquently written study of the city that was second only to Richmond in size and strategic significance. Industrial, commercial, and extremely prosperous, Petersburg was also home to a large African American community, including the state's highest percentage of free blacks. On the eve of the Civil War, the city elected a conservative, pro-Union approach to the sectional crisis. Little more than a month before Virginia's secession did Petersburg finally express pro-Confederate sentiments, at which point the city threw itself wholeheartedly into the effort, with large numbers of both white and black men serving. Over the next four years, Petersburg's citizens watched their once-beautiful city become first a conduit for transient soldiers from the Deep South, then an armed camp, and finally the focus of one of the Civil War's most protracted and damaging campaigns. (The fall of Richmond and collapse of the Confederate war effort in Virginia followed close on Grant's ultimate success in Petersburg.) At war's end, Petersburg's antebellum prosperity evaporated under pressures from inflation, chronic shortages, and the extensive damage done by Union artillery shells. Greene's book tracks both Petersburg's civilian experience and the city's place in Confederate military strategy and administration. Employing scores of unpublished sources, the book weaves a uniquely personal story of thousands of citizens--free blacks, slaves and their holders, factory owners, merchants--all of whom shared a singular experience in Civil War Virginia.