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"The nine-month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the Civil War. Large-scale Union "offensives"-grand maneuvers that triggered some of the large-scale battles-broke the monotony of siege warfare. This is tactical battle action at is finest. Horn's explanation for the context and consequences of every decision is grounded in hundreds of primary sources and supported by 40 original maps. This is the first full-length book to put Grant's second effort into its proper perspective-not only in the context of Petersburg's siege and the Civil War, but in the context of warfare's history"--
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Chicago native John Horn majored in English and Latin at New College (Sarasota, Florida) and has practiced law around Chicago since graduating from New York's Columbia Law School in 1976. In addition to many articles, he has written three more books about the siege of Petersburg and that city's soldiers and co-edited another. John's previous book, The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (Savas Beatie) won the 2019 Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History. John is popular on the speaking circuit and has blogged at johnhorncivilwarauthor.blogspot.com since 2015. John's wife and law partner hails from Richmond, Virginia, and they often visit relatives there.
