{"title":"A. Wilson Greene","description":"A. Wilson Greene is the former president of the Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier and author of The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign.","products":[{"product_id":"a-campaign-of-giants-the-battle-for-petersburg-volume-one-from-the-crossing-of-the-james-to-the-crater-paperback","title":"A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume One: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers and civilians alike. After failing to bull his way into Petersburg, Grant concentrated on isolating the city from its communications with the rest of the surviving Confederacy, stretching Lee's defenses to the breaking point. When Lee's desperate breakout attempt failed in March 1865, Grant launched his final offensives that forced the Confederates to abandon the city on April 2, 1865. A week later, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere A. Wilson Greene opens his sweeping new three-volume history of the Petersburg Campaign, taking readers from Grant's crossing of the James in mid-June 1864 to the fateful Battle of the Crater on July 30. Full of fresh insights drawn from military, political, and social history, \u003ci\u003eA Campaign of Giants\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to be the definitive account of the campaign. With new perspectives on operational and tactical choices by commanders, the experiences of common soldiers and civilians, and the significant role of the United States Colored Troops in the fighting, this book offers essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368471888095,"sku":"9781469688367","price":36.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zs121ERn9p9781469688367.webp?v=1789128485"},{"product_id":"a-campaign-of-giants-the-battle-for-petersburg-volume-2-from-the-craters-aftermath-to-the-battle-of-burgess-mill-hardcover","title":"A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. \u003ci\u003eA Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg\u003c\/i\u003e offers a gripping, comprehensive history of the decisive campaign in the eastern theater. In this second of three volumes, A. Wilson Greene narrates the critical months from August through October 1864, during which Ulysses S. Grant's army group launched three major offensives against Robert E. Lee's defenses around Petersburg and the Confederate capital in Richmond. The Confederates counterpunched after each Union advance and conducted a spectacular cavalry raid that netted almost 2,500 cattle from Federal grazing grounds. But as winter approached, Grant had captured one of Lee's primary supply routes and extended the lines around Petersburg and Richmond to some thirty-five miles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSupported by thirty-four detailed maps, Greene's narrative chronicles these bloody engagements using many previously unpublished primary accounts from common soldiers and ranking officers alike. The struggle for Petersburg is often characterized as a siege, but Greene's narrative demonstrates that it was dynamic, involving maneuver and combat equal in intensity to that of any major Civil War operation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368475427039,"sku":"9781469684819","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KRDH2KKtAG9781469684819.webp?v=1789128492"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/a-wilson-greene.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}