Grant needed to crack the heavily fortified defenses around Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia and end the war in a timely fashion. The siege, which lasted for nine and a half months, was finally ...

On June 15 and 18, 1864, Grant struck at Petersburg. He failed to take the city, but held it under siege. Just as he had at Vicksburg, Grant starved the Confederates out. It took him nine months ...

Grant of the Union and General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy engaged in a series of battles, skirmishes, raids, and trench warfare. These would become known as the Siege of Petersburg.

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

ISBN: 1612347126 A Fresh Look at the Start of the Petersburg Campaign Wargamer ... most notably U.S. Grant and even Robert E. Lee, are brought down a notch. Chick’s battle pieces are very well written ...

PETERSBURG, Va. — A man was found dead after a shooting in Petersburg on Sunday afternoon, Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett. Police were called to the 1300 block of Grant Avenue and were ...

Tanks and air defence missile systems rolled through the heart of Saint Petersburg on Sunday as the ... of the end of the second world war siege that claimed more than 800,000 lives.

Despite waging an adroit defensive campaign, he was unable to halt Grant's drive southward or to prevent him from laying siege to Richmond and Petersburg by the summer of 1864. Efforts to divert ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St. Petersburg commemorated the 81st anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad on Monday with a series of solemn events, including flower ...