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In the Trenches at Petersburg
9781469609959
0995
 


In the trenches at Petersburg; By Earl J. Hess; The final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortification of the civil war, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War.  Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of the siege to mining and countermining operations, the fashioning of wire entanglements and laying of torpedo fields to impede attacks and the construction of underground shelters to protect the men manning the works.  Humanizing the experience of the soldiers working the fortification and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle.



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