A Collection of Pictures from the Siege of Petersburg

*Includes nearly 50 pictures taken at Petersburg during and after the fighting. From May-June 1864, newly installed U.S. Army Commander Ulysses S. Grant attached himself to George Meades Army of the Potomac and directed that armys confrontation of Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia in a series of very high casualty battles known as the Overland Campaign. Despite being stopped at the Battle of the Wilderness, Grant proceeded south and nearly dealt the Confederate army a fatal blow at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the armies kept maneuvering toward Richmond and fought near the North Anna River before the Battle of Cold Harbor in early June. Eventually the Overland Campaign ended in a stalemate siege at Petersburg that could accurately be described as a forerunner of the trench warfare of World War I. With both armies hunkered down in trenches and fighting tooth and nail over a few miles of ground, the Unions war effort was able to coordinate George H. Thomas victories against John Bell Hood in the West while General William Tecumseh Sherman marched to the sea, taking Savannah and then Charleston on his way north. Eventually, Grant broke Lees lines in early April, forcing the Confederates to abandon Petersburg and Richmond, their capital. A week later, Lee would famously surrender to Grant at Appomattox, an event many consider the end of the Civil War. A Collection of Pictures from the Siege of Petersburg is a collection of nearly 50 pictures taken during and immediately after the deadly siege. This edition also includes pictures of some of the famous generals who participated in the siege.

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