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[2011], c2006
Language
English
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The siege of Petersburg matched Lee's mighty Army of Northern Virginia against Grant's plagued but numerically superior Army of the Potomac. Over the course of nine and a half months, starting in the summer of 1864, the siege grew to be the central focal point of the entire Civil War as some of the bloodiest battles of the war were to be fought around Petersburg. It would test the strength and commitment of Union troops and ultimately inflict a mortal...
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Pub. Date
[2018]-
Language
English
Description
"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"--
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English
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Ulysses S. Grant took command of the entire Union army in March of 1864. He told his commander George Meade, "Lee's army will be your objective. Wherever Lee goes, there will you go also?" Soon enough General Lee found out what he was up against, a Union general who did not retreat. Grant kept pushing toward Richmond and in June the two armies met near the Confederate capital. This program includes reenactments of what happened at one of the bloodiest...
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