Contents Preface vii acknowledgments ix introduction: Confederate autumn 1 Part i. The darbytown Road Battles 17 1 Johnson’s Farm 19 2 The new Market Road 49 3 Union Reconnaissance on the darbytown Road (october 13) 74 Part ii. grant’s Sixth offensive 97 4 The Petersburg Front 99 5 Petersburg Becomes the Key 113 6 Plans for the Sixth offensive 129 7 The Union army Prepares for Battle 141 8 The Williamsburg Road 148 9 nine Mile Road 168 10 The Fifth and ninth Corps advance 178 11 Second Corps Moves out 197 12 dabney’s Mill and the Quaker Meeting House 204 13 Reaching the Boydton Plank Road 215 14 Crawford at Hatcher’s Run 228 15 The Bull Pen 238 16 The Second Corps Redeemed 259 Part iii. The Beginning of the end 273 17 Retreat 275 18 aftermath 285 19 grant’s Sixth offensive Considered 293 appendix a: The Battlefields today 311 appendix B: orders of Battle 313 notes 338 Bibliography 411 index 428 ...