Download or read book Campaign For Petersburg written by Richard Wayne Lykes and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campaign For Petersburg, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Download or read book The Petersburg and Appomattox Camp a igns 1864 1865 written by John R. Maass and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Petersburg Campaign written by Edwin Bearss and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying these salient chapters are original maps by Civil War cartographer Steven Stanley, together with photos and illustrations. The result is a richer and deeper understanding of the major military episodes comprising the Petersburg Campaign.

Download or read book The Petersburg and Appomattox Campaigns 1864 1865 written by John R. Maass and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On title page and cover a star is used for the letter "[a]."

Download or read book The Petersburg and Appomattox Campaigns 1864 1865 written by John Maass and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Civil War's last year, two great adversaries squared off in central Virginia in a series of battles that eventually determined the struggle's outcome. After a month of battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor in May and June, 1864, Union Commander in Chief Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was frustrated in his headstrong attempts to batter the Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and bring them to open battle. Seeking to sidestep Lee's army and attack Richmond, the Confederacy's capital city, Grant moved south to cross the James River and cut the rebel army's supply lines at Petersburg, Virginia, where several key railroads met to form a crucial logistical center. Lee, however, reacted in time to block the Union strike at Petersburg. A ten month siege ensued as Grant sought to pry Lee out of Petersburg with flanking maneuvers, and the Confederates desperately defended the city and Richmond.Lee's lines finally collapsed on 2 April 1865 after a powerful Federal attack on his right, which forced the rebels to evacuate Richmond and Petersburg that night. In a seven day retreat with Grant's Union forces closely behind them, the Confederates marched west to obtain supplies and join other rebel troops in North Carolina. Grant's forces, particularly the cavalrymen under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan, were able to get in front of Lee's column and block his progress at a small court house village called Appomattox. With no chance of victory or even escape left to him, Lee surrendered his forces to Grant on 9 April 1865.

Download or read book The Petersburg and Appomattox Campaigns 1864 1865 The U S Army Campaigns of the Civil War Crossing the James River Deep Bottom Autumn Operations Hatcher s Run Fort Stedman Lee Grant written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report by the U.S. Army examines the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns of 1864 and 1865 in the American Civil War. By mid-June 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all United States armies fighting to defeat the Confederate rebellion, faced a strategic dilemma at his headquarters near Cold Harbor, Virginia. Under his close control, the Union Army of the Potomac led by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade had just battled 66,000 rebels of General Robert E. Lee's formidable Army of Northern Virginia in a bloody, month-long campaign. Beginning on 4 May, when Meade's 100,000 troops had marched south across the Rapidan River west of Fredericksburg, the opposing armies had been in almost constant contact. Grant had sought to bring Lee's army to battle and to destroy it with the Federals' superior numbers, but Lee had deftly thwarted Grant's flanking maneuvers in the battles of the Wilderness (5-6 May), Spotsylvania Court House (8-21 May), and the North Anna River (23-26 May). After each battle, Grant had attempted to outflank Lee's entrenched position by moving to the Union let to prevent the rebels from falling back to strong defenses and to force them to fight in the open. The Confederate commander had successfully parried each of Grant's thrusts and positioned his force between the Union army and Richmond, the Confederate capital. But Grant was not easily discouraged. Born in Ohio, he had graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843, and had served in the Mexican War. After that, his Army career took a downward turn, and he resigned his commission in 1854 amid accusations of chronic drunkenness. Later, several business ventures and attempts at farming ended in failure, and by 1860, he was working at his father's tannery in Galena, Illinois. The outbreak of the Civil War saw Grant back in uniform, first organizing new state units, then as a regimental commander, and he was soon promoted to brigadier general. Grant's fortunes rose rapidly, as he earned a second star and won impressive victories at Fort Donelson and Shiloh in Tennessee, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and at Chattanooga, Tennessee. President Abraham Lincoln was impressed by Grant's successes and secured his promotion to lieutenant general in March 1864. Now in command of all Federal armies, Grant chose to make his headquarters in the field with Meade's army, which had won few victories against the rebels in the war's Eastern Theater. Grant's presence with the Army of the Potomac was awkward and tended to undermine Meade's authority, but the latter kept his command until the war's end.

Download or read book To Appomattox written by Burke Davis and published by Classics of War. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a riveting chronicle of the nine final days of the Civil War, and anecdotal and intimate portrait of Grant, Lee, Lincoln, and the war's other notable personalities as they play out the end-game to America's bloodiest war.

Download or read book The Battle of Petersburg June 15 18 1864 written by Sean Michael Chick and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War. In The Battle of Petersburg, June 15–18, 1864, Sean Michael Chick takes an in-depth look at an important battle often overlooked by historians and offers a new perspective on why the Army of the Potomac’s leadership, from Grant down to his corps commanders, could not win a battle in which they held colossal advantages. He also discusses the battle’s wider context, including politics, memory, and battlefield preservation. Highlights include the role played by African American soldiers on the first day and a detailed retelling of the famed attack of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, which lost more men than any other Civil War regiment in a single battle. In addition, the book has a fresh and nuanced interpretation of the generalships of Grant, Meade, Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and William Farrar Smith during this critical battle.

Download or read book The Petersburg and Appomattox Campaigns 1864 1865 written by John Maass and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Richmond Petersburg Campaign 1864 65 written by Charles R. Bowery Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns in which Federal armies drove Robert E. Lee's army to the brink of defeat in April 1865. The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign lasted for ten months, the longest in any theater of the war, and dwarfed all of the war's other campaigns for length of sustained combat, distances covered by the opposing forces, number of troops deployed, and number of battles and engagements. Yet this military operation has traditionally received little attention from scholars, considering its importance in bringing the war to an end. This concise reference analyzes the grueling 1864–65 campaign, particularly its strategic, operational, and tactical decisions, which shaped the course and outcome of the war. The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign affected every segment of American society, bringing the impact of the war home to soldiers and civilians alike. General Ulysses S. Grant's armies employed more African Americans than in any other Civil War campaign, and their contributions were critical to Union victory. In an indication of the decisive importance of the campaign, the Confederacy took the unimaginable step of attempting to arm slaves for military service. A historian and lifelong resident of Virginia, Charles R. Bowery Jr. combines a vivid narrative, in-depth character study, and technical aspects of warfare to describe the human drama of one of the Civil War's most complex, decisive, and fascinating conflicts. This riveting account reveals how, in spite of the exceptional commands of leaders Grant and Lee, both sides suffered from personal rivalries, questions of honor, ineffective organization, and poor communication. The book concludes with an assessment of the mixed performances of both armies, the factors that influenced the outcome, and the campaign's role in ending the Civil War.

Download or read book Petersburg Campaign written by John Horn and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-10-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss in April 1865 of the railroad center at Petersburg, just south of Richmond, sealed the doom of the Confederacy. The campaign for Petersburg was a long siege operation of grueling trench warfare marked by bloody battles, incompetence, political maneuvering and cowardice. It was the type of campaign that both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant had originally wanted to avoid. This dramatic narrative is supplemented by special charts covering strengths and losses for both sides, Confederate desertion rates, and statistics for the Civil War's other sieges.

Download or read book Appomattox Campaign written by Dhirubhai Patel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 - April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern ...Appomattox campaignChapter 1: Appomattox campaign1.1 Grant's strategy1.2 Battle of Hatcher's Run1.3 Lee plans to withdraw from Petersburg1.4 March 24, 1865: Grant's orders1.5 Battle of Fort StedmanChapter 2: Campaign preludeChapter 3: Opposing forces3.1 Union offensive3.2 Lewis's Farm (March 29, 1865) 3.3 White Oak Road line3.4 White Oak Road (March 31) 3.5 Dinwiddie Court House (March 31) 3.6 Five Forks (April 1) 3.7 Breakthrough at Petersburg (April 2) 3.8 Sixth Corps breakthrough3.9 A.P. Hill killed3.10 VI Corps, XXIV Corps moves3.11 Battle of Forts Gregg and Whitworth3.12 VI Corps drives back artillery3.13 Parke's attack on Fort Mahone3.14 Humphreys's attack on White Oak Road; lost opportunity3.15 Sutherland's Station (April 2) 3.16 Union occupation of Richmond and Petersburg; Davis reaches Danville (April 3) Chapter: 4 Confederate retreat4.1 Beaver Pond Creek or Tabernacle Church (April 4) 4.2 Amelia Court House (April 4) 4.3 Paineville; Amelia Springs (April 5-6) 4.4 Sailor's Creek (April 6) 4.5 Rice's Station (April 6) 4.6 High Bridge (April 6-7)4.7 Cumberland Church (April 7) 4.8 Appomattox Station (April 8) 4.9 Appomattox Court House (April 9) 4.10 Aftermath

Download or read book Appomattox 1865 written by Ron Field and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an internationally renowned expert on US history, this highly illustrated title details the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East. Ulysses S Grant's Army of the Potomac and Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia faced up to one another one last time, resulting in Lee conducting a desperate series of withdrawals and retreats down the line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hoping to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. This book, with informative full-colour illustrations and maps, tells the full story of the skirmishes and pursuits that led directly to Lee's surrender, as his frantic efforts to extricate his forces from ever more perilous positions became increasingly untenable.

Download or read book The Shenandoah Campaigns of 1862 and 1864 and the Appomattox Campaign 1865 written by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Breaking The Backbone Of The Rebellion written by A. Wilson Greene and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-06-21 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed account of the final battles of the Civil War siege of Petersburg covers leadership, supply, desertion, strategy and tactics, and was written by the director of the Pamplin Park Historic Site.

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Download or read book The Appomattox Campaign written by Chris Calkins and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-07-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous accounts of the Civil War's last major campaign have often neglected the actual maneuvers and tactics of the units involved. This new addition to the Great Campaigns series features a tactical approach to the final drama of the Civil War. Innovative maps, sidebars and charts complement a dramatic narrative. The fall of Petersburg and Richmond, the last battles at Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, and Dinwiddie Court House, and the final surrender at Appomattox are all described by an author whose knowledge of the historical sources is equaled by his familiarity with the area over which the armies marched and fought.The author provides a day-to-day narrative of this fascinating campaign, with a series of specially commissioned maps that make clear the complex series of maneuvers that finally brought Lee's beleaguered army to bay. Special sidebars highlight many incidents and personalities of the campaign, including never-before-published information on African-Americans in Confederate service. Record-keeping, especially for the Confederates, was difficult in the last hectic days of the war, and readers will find here the most complete order of battle available for both sides.