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- Author:Earl J. Hess
- ISBN:0807832820
- ISBN13:978-0807832820
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- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press; First edition (July 15, 2009)
- Pages:432 pages
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Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 (Civil Wa. y Earl J. .In the preface to his new book, Earl Hess remarks that "Petersburg was less of a siege than it was a traditional field campaign with some limited aspects of siege warfare.
In the preface to his new book, Earl Hess remarks that "Petersburg was less of a siege than it was a traditional field campaign with some limited aspects of siege warfare. And he amply demonstrates thereafter that although field fortifications played a vital role (or multiple vital roles) in the Petersburg fighting, the campaign was much more than static trench warfare.
Joined with Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns and Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, this book completes an extensive discussion of fortifications in the East
Joined with Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns and Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, this book completes an extensive discussion of fortifications in the East.
Series: Civil War America. The trenches at Petersburg became filthy by August. Published by: University of North Carolina Press. This book, the third volume in Earl Hess's trilogy on the war in the eastern theater, recounts the strategic and tactical operations in Virginia during the last ten months of the Civil War, when field fortifications dominated military planning and the landscape of battle. Officers tried to enforce cleanliness, but the men always dropped bits of food on the floor.
The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book: Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee . Field fortification & confederate defeat. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book: Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Lee's Tar Heels: The acRae Brigade. The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta. The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta. The university of north carolina press.
The Petersburg campaign began June 15, 1864, with Union attempts to break an improvised line of Confederate field fortifications
The Petersburg campaign began June 15, 1864, with Union attempts to break an improvised line of Confederate field fortifications. By the time the campaign ended on April 2, 1865, two opposing lines of sophisticated and complex earthworks stretched for thirty-five miles, covering not only Petersburg but also the southeastern approaches to Richmond
Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. In the opening work in the series, Hess establishes field fortification as a feature of eastern battlefields going back to the clash at Big Bethel, Virginia, in 1861.
Civil War America Series. Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee and In the Trenches at Petersburg continue the same overall approach, tracing campaigns with a focus on the construction and use of fieldworks in specific battles.
In the Trenches at Petersburg humanizes the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle.
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil Wa. In the Trenches at Petersburg humanizes the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle. Civil War America (Paperback). Longleaf Services on Behalf of Univ of N. Carolina.
Автор: Hess Earl J. Название: In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications .
Civil War America Its place in the literature on the American Civil War has received an.Thesis Statement: The Confederate failure to follow the principles of war led to their defeat at Vicksburg
Its place in the literature on the American Civil War has received an appropriately increasing amount of attention in the last two decades which has offered perspective on the importance of the campaign and correction and refinement of its interpretation. Often overlooked in favor of the. Thesis Statement: The Confederate failure to follow the principles of war led to their defeat at Vicksburg. Discussion: An examination of the Confederate management of the Battle of Vicksburg reveals many problem areas.