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The First Battle for Petersburg - The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864 (Hardcover)
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The First Battle for Petersburg - The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864 (Hardcover)
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The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well
known to students of the Civil War. Surprisingly few readers,
however, are aware that Petersburg's citizens felt war's hard hand
nearly a week before the armies of Grant and Lee arrived on their
doorstep in the middle of June 1864. Distinguished historian
William Glenn Robertson rectifies this oversight with the
publication of The First Battle for Petersburg in a special revised
Sesquicentennial edition. During his ill-fated Bermuda Hundred
Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler in late May took note of the
"Cockade City's" position astride Richmond's railroad lifeline and
its minuscule garrison. When two attempts to seize the city and
destroy the bridges over the Appomattox River failed, Butler
mounted an expedition to Petersburg on June 9. Led by Maj. Gen.
Quincy Gillmore and Brig. Gen. August Kautz, the Federal force of
3,300 infantry and 1,300 cavalry appeared large enough to overwhelm
Brig. Gen. Henry Wise's paltry 1,200 Confederate defenders,
one-quarter of which were reserves that included several companies
of elderly men and teenagers. The attack on the critical logistical
center, and how the Confederates managed to hold the city, is the
subject of Robertson's ground-breaking study. Ironically, Butler's
effort resulted in Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's decision to slightly
enlarge Petersburg's garrison-troops that may have provided the
razor-thin margin of difference when the head of the Army of the
Potomac appeared in strength six days later. The First Battle for
Petersburg describes the strategy, tactics, and generalship of the
Battle of June 9 in full detail, as well as the impact on the
city's citizens, both in and out of the ranks. Robertson's study is
grounded in extensive primary sources supported by original maps
and photos and illustrations. It remains the most comprehensive
analysis of the June 9 engagement of Petersburg's "old men and
young boys." Petersburg itself has never forgotten the sacrifices
of its citizens on that summer day 150 years ago, and continues to
honor their service with an annual commemoration. Once you read Dr.
Robertson's The First Battle for Petersburg: The Attack and Defense
of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864, you will understand why.
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