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Greene, A. Wilson. A Campaign of Giants–The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater. (University of North Carolina Press: June 2018). 728 pages, 34 maps, notes, bibliography, index.  ISBN: 978-1-4696-3857-7. $45.00 (Cloth) With A Campaign of Giants–The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James […]

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Editor’s Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online. Cross, David F. A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad: The Vermont Brigade, June 23, 1864 (White Mane Books, 2003). 267 pages, photos, maps, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 1-57249-332-1 $29.95 (Hardcover). On June 23, 1864, the Vermont Brigade of the Army of the Potomac […]

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Editor’s Note: This post is also crossposted at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. One of the goals of my Petersburg Campaign project at Beyond the Crater is to go beyond the public domain maps freely available to everyone when and where I can. One way to do this is to contact authors and […]

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The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog.  These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. Petersburg 1864-65: The longest siege is the second of […]

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After posting a short blog entry commemorating the anniversary of the Battles for Jerusalem Plank Road on June 21, I was astonished to find that there has never even been so much as a magazine article focusing on the fighting on June 22, 1864 between Mahone’s Confederate Division and the Union II Corps, led that […]

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I’ve decided to do a short blog entry on each of Grant’s Nine Offensives during the Petersburg Campaign, covering the basics and giving interested readers links to books and web sites for further study. I started last week with my first post on the Battle of Petersburg. After the failed assaults of June 18, 1864, […]

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