Selasa, 02 Januari 2018

CWT Book Review: In the Trenches at Petersburg

In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat  by Earl J. Hess, University of North Carolina Press The final volume in an extraordinary trilogy on field fortifications in the Eastern theater, In the Trenches at Petersburg is also the best modern study of the Union operations against Richmond and Petersburg from June 1864 …

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