In the Trenches at Petersburg : Field Fortifications and 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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hess, Earl J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Military readiness
Fortification, Field
Fortification
Intrenchments.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Fortifications de campagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Fortification, Field > History > 19th century.
Fortification > Virginia > Petersburg > History.
Virginia > Petersburg
Virginia
United States > Confederate States of America
United States
États-Unis > Defense nationale > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Trench warfare.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Trench warfare.
United States > Defenses > History > 19th century.
Petersburg (Va.) > History > Siege, 1864-1865.
Confederate States of America > Defenses > History.
History
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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