Tag: siege of petersburg
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Richard Sommers’ MASSIVE Thesis on the Fifth Offensive at Petersburg is FREE Online
I was pleasantly surprised tonight to find Richard Sommer’s massive 1500 page Ph. D. thesis freely available online tonight from Rice University. Written in 1970 and entitled “GRANT’S FIFTH OFFENSIVE AT PETERSBURG: A STUDY IN STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND GENERALSHIP. THE BATTLE OF CHAFFIN’S BLUFF, THE BATTLE OF POPLAR SPRING CHURCH, THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE […]
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Siege of Petersburg Beyond the Crater Progress Report: 2/19/2010
Siege of Petersburg: Beyond the Crater Progress Report: February 19, 2011 It’s been quite awhile (almost a year!) since I last covered the goings on at my other Civil War site, The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. A LOT has been happening over there, including: Siege of Petersburg Diary and Letter Entries, with […]
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Civil War Book Review: Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
Editor’s Note: This Civil War book review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater earlier today. Hess, Earl J. Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg. The University of South Carolina Press (September 30, 2010). 352 pp., 45 illustrations, maps, order of battle, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-57003-922-5 $44.95 (Cloth). […]
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BTC Notes: A Detailed New Way to Look at Siege of Petersburg Materials
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Introducing BTC Notes at The Siege of Petersburg Online BTC Notes is a new feature at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater which takes a detailed look at Petersburg Campaign materials such as books, articles, essays, maps, […]
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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 […]