Historic Photos of the Siege of Petersburg Book

After the failed Battle of the Crater in July 1864, in which Union forces burrowed a charge under Confederate lines to blow a hole in the defenses of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of the Potomac under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant resumed its siege of Petersburg, a town strategic to the capital at Richmond, through endless months of watching and waiting. Finally, in April 1865, Grant maneuvered to breach the Confederate lines and cut off the retreat of Lee s forces at Appomattox, forcing a surrender and bringing the Civil War to its close.Historic Photos of the Siege of Petersburg recounts this pivotal event in the war through hundreds of historic photographs, all captioned and reproduced in striking black and white. Spotlighted here are many of the soldiers and officers embroiled in the contest, the ingenious fortifications they designed, and the harm they wrought and sustained in their struggle to champion a cause.As a collection, the images in Historic Photos of the Siege of Petersburg bring together in one volume a comprehensive visual record of the historic events at Petersburg and document a struggle crucial to ending the war and shaping the future of a nation.Read More