Gary W. Gallagher,Sean Chick,Christian B. Keller,Alexander Mendoza,Ethan S. Rafuse,Thomas W. Cutrer,Stephen D. Engle,Joseph T. Glatthaar,Jennifer M. Murray;Johnson, Timothy D.
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Robert E. Lee feared the day the Union army would return up the James River and invest the Confederate capital of Richmond. In the spring of 1864, Ulysses Grant, looking for a way to weaken Lee, was a
The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee’s Army of N