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Abbot, Henry L., 51–52, 58, 103, 235, 288– 89, 304, 308–9 Aerial warfare, 240–43 Alabama units 3rd, 269 6th, 269 Alexander, E. P., 44, 47, 86, 175, 178 Appomattox campaign, 280–82 Armored breastworks, 243 Artillery, 74–75, 86–87, 92–94, 103, 155–56, 188, 238 Barnard, John G., 4–5, 41, 61, 190, 276 Beauregard, P. G. T., 12–14, 26–27, 36, 44–45 Benham, Henry W., 60, 183 Bermuda Hundred, defenses at, 306–10, 374 (nn. 27, 32) Biggs, Will, 65, 219 Birney, David B., 159 Blackford, W. W., 111, 113–14, 120–21, 342 (n. 44) Blacks: as engineer troops, 7; in Fifth Offensive, 161, 163; as laborers on fortifications, 10, 54–57, 123, 153– 54, 205, 237; in mine attack, 87–88, 95–96, 98–100, 102–4; as soldiers, 281 Boston, William, 253 Bowden, John Malachi, 76 Bowen, Charles, 32–33 Bowen, George D., 30, 33–35, 157, 187–88, 277 Bowley, Freeman, 99–101 Boydton Plank Road Line, 165–66, 169 Bradwell, I. G., 211, 217, 228 Bridges, 347–48 (n. 14) Bross, John A., 98–99 Burnside, Ambrose E., 87–89, 96–97, 104–6 Carter, Robert Goldthwaite, 67 Casemates, 236, 364 (n. 23) Cavin, Virgil S., 219–20, 225 Chaffin’s Bluff defenses, 161, 175–81, 313–16 Chamberlayne, John Hampden, 153 Chevaux-de-frise, 60, 64, 111, 200, 204 Chisholm, Daniel, 16–17, 136 City Point defenses, 147, 183–84, 201, 304 Clarke, John J., 7 Clarke, Thomas W., 90 Colston, Raleigh E., 12 Comstock, Cyrus Ballou, 5 Confederate units 1st Engineers, 6 2nd Engineers, 6–7 Conner, James, 140 Cook, Thomas M., 288 Corduroy roads, 203, 297, 347 (n. 14) Covered ways, 53, 55–56, 111, 203, 288 index { 400 } Index Crater, battle of the. See Mine attack at Petersburg Daley, Dennis B., 134, 345 (n. 42) Dams, 204–5, 238, 291, 305, 357 (n. 18) Dauchy, George K., 136 Davidson, Roderick O., 241–42 Day, W. A., 204 Deep Bottom: bridgehead at, 38–40; defenses at, 152, 173–74; first battle of, 79–83; second battle of, 124–29 Desertion, 72, 109, 187, 224–28 Dimmock, Charles H., 11, 36 Dimmock Line at Petersburg, 10–14, 36, 51, 61–62, 265–66, 273–74, 294–96, 322 (n. 25), 324 (n. 46), 327 (n. 7) Douglas, Hugh Thomas, 47–49, 83–84, 113–15, 118–20 Duane, James Chatham, 1, 17, 42, 44, 318–319 (n. 1) Dunlop, William, 277 Dutch Gap Canal, 122–23, 182–83, 201–2, 240 Eighth Union Offensive at Petersburg, 254–63 Elliott, Stephen D., 94 Engineers, 1–8 Ewell, Richard S., 152 Farquhar, Francis U., 3, 44–45 Fascines, 60 Field fortifications, xv–xvi; construction of, 50–64, 142–47, 151–53, 166–81, 232–33, 289; dimensions of, 32–33, 57, 63, 172, 179, 302, 306, 308; maintenance and improvement of, 109–11, 147–51, 153–54, 182, 199–201, 235–38; rifle musket and, 283; and soldiers as laborers, 289 Fifth Union Offensive at Petersburg, 160– 66, 172–73, 178–79 Fireballs, 24, 238 First Confederate Offensive at Petersburg, 40–41 First Offensive at Petersburg, 18–37 Five Forks, battle of, 260–63 Food, 67–68, 107, 219–20, 224 Fort Brady, 172, 237, 313 Fort Burnham, 169–70, 236, 310–11, 375 (n. 37) Fort Conahey, 168, 201, 301–2 Fort Davis, 147, 149 Fort Dushane, 144 Fort Fisher, 302–3 Fort Gregg, 274–77, 370 (n. 28) Fort Harrison, 152, 161–64, 169, 310–11 Fort Johnson, 175, 177–78 Fort Mahone, 266–70, 290 Forts, naming of, 59, 146 Fort Sedgwick, 57, 59, 122, 149, 185–86, 206, 209, 266, 288, 292–93, 297–303 Fort Stedman, 122, 186, 293, 296–97; Confederate attack on, 246–53 Fort Wadsworth, 167 Fourth Union Offensive at Petersburg, 124–41 Fowler, Thomas, 112, 340 (n. 24) Fuel, 218–19 Gabions, 54, 60, 63, 200 Gibbon, John, 37, 139–40, 257 Gilreath, Erasmus, 71 Glacis, 57 Globe Tavern, battle of, 129–35, 344 (n. 38), 345 (n. 43) Gomez fuse, 120, 202 Gordon, John B., 246, 250, 270–71 Gordon, William Alexander, 115 Gould, Charles G., 272–73 Gracie, Archibald, 211 Grant, Ulysses S., xiii, 14–15, 17, 23, 35, 100, 189, 104–6, 278–80; and development of grand tactics at Petersburg, 41–45, 49, 78–79, 82–83, 87–88, 103, 124, 128, 132, 135, 141–42, 145, 160, 179, 189–90, 192–93, 195...

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