Grant needed to crack the heavily fortified defenses around Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia and end the war in a timely ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

I am responding to your recent editorial about the current status of the National Park Service (NPS) as a current volunteer at the Petersburg National Civil War Battlefield (PNB). I was an Army ...

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 ...

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the lifting of the German Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. /TASS/.

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. A St. Petersburg Prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to recognize the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people, the press service of the Russian ...