known as the siege of Petersburg, it was not a classic military siege, in which a city is encircled with fortifications blocking all routes of ingress and...
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The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the...
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Battle of Petersburg may refer to: Siege of Petersburg, or the Richmond–Petersburg campaign, occurring in and near Petersburg, Virginia from June 9, 1864...
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Virginia in the area of Petersburg, Virginia, at the end of the 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (sometimes called the Siege of Petersburg) and in the beginning...
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Bely Siege of Petersburg, a battle of the American Civil War SS Petersburg, an oil tanker Search for "Petersburg" on Wikipedia. Battle of Petersburg (disambiguation)...
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railroad cars during the siege of Petersburg. the figure in the foreground is Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt, chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac. The Civil...
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in the war at Richmond. The 1864–65 Siege of Petersburg, which included the Battle of the Crater and nine months of trench warfare devastated the city...
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the Siege of Petersburg). Union forces under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General George G. Meade attempted to capture Petersburg, Virginia...
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Bushrod Johnson (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
the Battle of Fort Donelson, but was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. He served under Robert E. Lee throughout the 10-month Siege of Petersburg, and surrendered...
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historians of the Antebellum South. His Appomattox Manor was used as a base by Union general Ulysses S. Grant during his siege of Petersburg, Virginia...
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Appomattox Manor (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia)
headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864–65. The restored c. 1751 manor house on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the James River and Appomattox...
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Archibald Gracie III (category People of Alabama in the American Civil War)
and December 1864, Gracie served in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg. On December 1, Gracie's 32nd birthday, his second...
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27–28, 1864, followed the Union Army's successful Battle of Peebles's Farm in the siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War. This follow up was a further...
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the siege of Petersburg of the American Civil War. The following order of battle is the organization from the Confederate forces near Petersburg of October...
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Petersburg National Battlefield is a National Park Service unit preserving sites related to the American Civil War Siege of Petersburg (1864–65). The battlefield...
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City Point, Virginia (category 1613 establishments in the Colony of Virginia)
annexed by the independent city of Hopewell in 1923. It served as headquarters of the Union Army during the siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War...
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48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Pennsylvania)
served in the Siege of Petersburg from June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865, including the Second Battle of Petersburg on June 16–18 and the Battle of Jerusalem...
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also participated in the Siege of Petersburg. During the siege the Army of the James was mainly involved in the investment of Richmond. Butler's only major...
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Depot Field Hospital (category Former medical facilities of the United States Army)
Depot Field Hospital was one of seven hospitals operated at City Point, Virginia, in the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War. The largest...
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1864, near Petersburg, Virginia. It was the first of a series of battles during the Siege of Petersburg aimed at extending the Union siege lines to the...
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56th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Massachusetts)
Spotsylvania Courthouse, and the Battle of the Crater. They were involved in several assaults during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and participated in the spring...
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the Soviet history of Saint Petersburg, including the Museum of the Blockade, which describes the Siege of Leningrad and the Museum of Political History...
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Ulysses S. Grant (redirect from 18th President of the United States of America)
Hancock's corps on the way. Lee's lines were extended north and east of Richmond and Petersburg for approximately ten miles, but at several points there were...
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The order of battle for the Siege of Petersburg includes: Siege of Petersburg order of battle: Confederate Siege of Petersburg order of battle: Union...
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The Battle of the Crater took place during the American Civil War, part of the Siege of Petersburg. It occurred on Saturday, July 30, 1864, between the...
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American Civil War (redirect from Military history of the Confederate States)
significant battles raged around the ten-month Siege of Petersburg, gateway to the Confederate capital of Richmond. The Confederates abandoned Richmond...
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Henry Jackson Hunt (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
He served in Virginia to the end of the war, managing the siege operations of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. He was breveted major general both in the...
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George Pickett (category American people of English descent)
participated in the Siege of Petersburg. General Pickett had received orders from Robert E. Lee to, with the Cavalry divisions of Major Generals William...
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Confederate defenders at the Second Battle of Petersburg, the 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (Siege of Petersburg) began. Union General-in-Chief Ulysses...
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2nd Maryland Infantry Regiment (Confederate) (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Maryland)
rail to Petersburg, where they set up defensive breastworks. The Siege of Petersburg was underway, and for the next few months the men lived in their...
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