Category: Beyond the Crater: Petersburg Campaign Notes
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Army of the Potomac Morale at the Siege of Petersburg
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater on Monday, January 17, 2011. Bryce Suderow is an author, researcher, and Siege of Petersburg specialist. “The Troops Did Not Meet the Attack with Vigor and Courage and Determination”: Union Army Morale at the Siege of Petersburg by Bryce Suderow […]
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Bryce Suderow Comments on Grant and Meade’s Leadership Early in the Petersburg Campaign
Many dedicated students of the Civil War, and especially the Petersburg Campaign, are probably familiar with Bryce Suderow. Bryce did quite a bit of research for Gordon Rhea’s famous series of books on the 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign, and he is the author of Thunder in Arcadia Valley: Price’s Defeat, September 27, 1864 about Sterling […]
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An AMAZING New Addition to BTC: The Diary of Octave Bruso
I was very pleasantly surprised on Thursday evening when Tom Bauerle emailed me to ask if I would be interested in some materials on the Petersburg Campaign in his possession. I eagerly agreed when I learned Tom had purchased his great great grandfather’s diary in an auction and transcribed the entire thing! Tom’s great great […]
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Ulysses S. Grant’s Papers Online Courtesy of Mississippi State University
Editor’s Note: This blog entry was originally posted at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. It has been crossposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. (Hat tip to Nick and Harry.) As many of you are probably aware, the Grant Papers moved from the care of John Y. Simon at Southern Illinois […]
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G. K. Warren’s Downfall: How the Battles of Quaker Road and White Oak Road Cost Warren His Job
Editor’s Note: This blog entry was originally published earlier today at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online and has been crossposted at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. I recently posted an American Civil War miniatures wargaming scenario on the Battle of Quaker Road from the Charge! wargaming newsletter as well as Gettysburg hero […]
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Petersburg Campaign Related Books from My Google Books Library
Editor’s Note: Portions of this post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. Some additional introductory material has been included here. Google Books has the potential to be a Civil War buff’s friend, at least when Google is not trying to post too much information from books still under copyright anyway. There […]
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Two New Maps on the Crater and Jerusalem Plank Road by Petersburg Campaign Author John E. Horn
Editor’s Note: This post is also crossposted at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. One of the goals of my Petersburg Campaign project at Beyond the Crater is to go beyond the public domain maps freely available to everyone when and where I can. One way to do this is to contact authors and […]