A Grand Opening Squandered: The Battle for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 (Chick - CWC) Section- Civil War Fiction who pursued the North Carolina

who pursued the North Carolina regiment on the road

Moving beyond the standard portrayal of the war's generals as "butchers and bunglers

by Michael Burlingame (Author)

most biographers have regarded his early years as inconsequential to his career and accomplishments

He describes his various Tom Sawyer-like adventures with the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac

A Grand Opening Squandered: The Battle for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 (Chick - CWC) Section- Civil War Fiction who pursued the North Carolinaby Sean Michael Chick (Author) The Battle of Petersburgs intense four day clash marked a missed Union opportunity, prolonging the Civil War with dramatic consequences. May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. Combined losses for the two armies after the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor exceeded 80,000 killed, wounded, and captured. The result? A stalemate