In this Book
- In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Civil War America
summary
In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of 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. In the Trenches at Petersburg humanizes the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle.
Table of Contents
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- Contents/Illustrations/Maps
- pp. vii-xi
- CHAPTER THREE: Three Days in June
- pp. 21-37
- CHAPTER FIVE: Digging In
- pp. 50-64
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Third Offensive
- pp. 78-89
- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Crater
- pp. 90-106
- CHAPTER NINE: August
- pp. 107-123
- CHAPTER TEN: The Fourth Offensive
- pp. 124-141
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: September
- pp. 142-159
- CHAPTER TWELVE: The Fifth Offensive
- pp. 160-181
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Winter
- pp. 215-228
- Conclusion
- pp. 280-285
- APPENDIX ONE: Artifacts of War
- pp. 287-294
- APPENDIX TWO: The Richmond-Petersburg Line
- pp. 295-316
- Bibliography
- pp. 377-397
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469603261
Related ISBN(s)
9780807832820, 9780807882351, 9781469609959
MARC Record
OCLC
769189688
Pages
432
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No