The Petersburg campaign was a long siege operation of grueling trench warfare marked by bloody battles, incompetence, political maneuvering and cowardice. It was the type of campaign neither the Union nor the Confederacy wanted. The conflict around the Virginia town led to the decline of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the surrender of the Confederate capital at Richmond. After the fall of Petersburg, the end of the Civil War was only a matter of days. Special charts cover strengths and losses for both sides, Confederate desertion rates, and statistics for the Civil War's other sieges. Sidebars discuss styles of command, the Crater explosion, the role of snipers and sharpshooters, and the campaign's no-quarter encounters between Southern whites and Union men of color.
- ISBN10 0938289284
- ISBN13 9780938289289
- Publish Date 21 October 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Imprint Da Capo Lifelong
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English