A Campaign of Giants - the Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: from the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle...

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A. Wilson Greene

A Campaign of Giants - the Battle for Petersburg

Volume 2: from the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

A. Wilson Greene

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The University of North Carolina Press
08 April 2025

History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; American Civil War

Series: Civil War America

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Supported by thirty-four detailed maps, Greene's narrative chronicles these bloody engagements using many previously unpublished primary accounts from common soldiers and ranking officers alike.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.

By: A. Wilson Greene
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9781469684819
ISBN 10: 1469684810
Series: Civil War America
Pages: 712
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

""Greene's well-written history of the Battle of Petersburg should be read by anyone interested in the American Civil War.""—Library Journal, starred review