Campaign for Petersburg by Richard Wayne Lykes

Author:Richard Wayne Lykes [Lykes, Richard Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-05T22:00:00+00:00

Federal soldiers in the trenches before Petersburg. By 1864, most of the men of the Armies of the Potomac and the James were veteran combat soldiers, but the strain of siege warfare eventually affected even the most hardened of them. “It was hell itself,” one soldier recalled, “and it is wondrous to me that so many of us survived the event.”

Constructing gabions for the attack on Petersburg. When filled with earth, these cylindrical, basket-like objects offered strong protection against enemy fire.

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