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 ...

The four days of maneuver and combat around Petersburg (June 15-18 ... Lee, are brought down a notch. Chick’s battle pieces are very well written, clear and careful, and accompanied by some very ...

“ARMIES ARE NOT MERE MACHINES”: The 17th Vermont and 31st Maine in the Second Battle of Petersburg This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Ethan Bisbee, “Lyman E. Knapp ...

At the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender, Hill proclaimed that he had no desire to see the end of the Confederacy. He rode to the front lines and was shot dead.

President Vladimir Putin, a native of Saint Petersburg, chose to skip the show ... used to warn residents about air raids during the siege. Some clutched flowers and could not hold back tears.

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 ...