A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume One: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

by A. Wilson Greene

Book Overview

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. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469638576
• ISBN13: 9781469638577
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"