Tag: june 16 1864

Author Interview: Sean Chick, Author of The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

Sean Chick, author of The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864, recently agreed to answer some questions about the new book. Sean’s book is only the second modern monograph on this battle, with Thomas Howe’s H. E. Howard volume the other. Chick was quite gracious in complimenting his predecessor’s work in the foreword of his own book. […]

July 9, 2015
“New” Thomas Clingman Official Report: Battle of Petersburg: June 16-18, 1864

Every so often in my Siege of Petersburg research I run into something which might be a bit of a “find.” I recently obtained page images of the 1873-1874 newspaper version of “Our Living and Our Dead,” a New Bern, North Carolina newspaper edited by Stephen D. Pool. On page 2 of the March 18, […]

October 13, 2014

Author Interview: Sean Chick, Author of The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864