In the trenches at Petersburg : field fortifications & Confederate defeat /

Hess recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. He covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the siege to mining and countermining operations, the fashioning of wire entanglements and t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hess, Earl J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Temas:
1800 - 1899
Fortification > Virginia > Petersburg > History.
Fortification, Field > History > 19th century.
Fortifications de campagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Intrenchments.
Fortification
Fortification, Field
Military readiness
Confederate States of America > Defenses > History.
Petersburg (Va.) > History > Siege, 1864-1865.
United States > Defenses > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Trench warfare.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Trench warfare.
États-Unis > Défense nationale > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
Virginia
Virginia > Petersburg
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Engineers and war
  • Crossing the James River
  • Three days in June
  • Searching for a solution
  • Digging in
  • Soldiering in the trenches
  • The third offensive
  • The crater
  • August
  • The fourth offensive
  • September
  • The fifth offensive
  • October and the sixth offensive
  • November, December, and January
  • Winter
  • The seventh offensive, February, and March
  • Fort Stedman and the eighth offensive
  • The ninth offensive, April 2

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