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Mar 19, 2014 · The Petersburg Campaign: The Western Front Battles, September 1864 April 1865, Volume 2. The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the...
Dec 19, 2014 · The revised and updated groundbreaking study of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War—from the author of Bloody Roads South. The Petersburg campaign began on June 9, 1864, and...
- Noah Andre Trudeau
- Savas Publishing, 2014
- revised
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Jun 15, 2015 · The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee’s...
Genealogy. Nearly 240,000 documents are now available to the public for free through the Virginia Memory Web portal www.virginiamemory.com. The Petersburg Chancery records contain a wealth of information on the African American experience, women’s history, and southern labor and business history in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods.
Dec 9, 2009 · I just checked out this guide to Petersburg, Virginia. Although the title includes, "industrial," the book has history of Petersburg. There are names in the book and there are lots of illustrations.
Oct 30, 2023 · Petersburg, Virginia. Independent Cities of Virginia. The City of Petersburg is located in the Central portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Originally named Peter's Point around 1675, the city was renamed to Petersburgh in 1733 with a spelling change later on[1].
