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Author Hess, Earl J

Title In the trenches at Petersburg : field fortifications & Confederate defeat / Earl J. Hess
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Contents 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
Summary 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 the laying of torpedo fields to impede attacks, and the construction of underground shelters to protect the men manning the works. The book humanises the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Fortification -- Virginia -- Petersburg -- History
Fortification, Field -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Intrenchments
Fortification
Fortification, Field
Military readiness
Confederate States of America -- Defenses -- History
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1864-1865.
United States -- Defenses -- History -- 19th century
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Trench warfare
Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Trench warfare
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
Virginia
Virginia -- Petersburg
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008053307
ISBN 9780807882351
0807882356
9781469603261
1469603268