Author : United States National Park Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396431272
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (312 download)
Book Synopsis Petersburg National Military Park (Classic Reprint) by : United States National Park Service
Download or read book Petersburg National Military Park (Classic Reprint) written by United States National Park Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Petersburg National Military Park Starting June 25, a Pennsylvania regiment, com posed chicfly of coal miners, dug a tunnel 511 feet in length and placed a 4-ton charge of powder be neath Pegram's Confederate battery. It was hoped that the explosion would destroy the bat tery and make a gap in the line through which the Federals could rush columns to take Peters burg. Careful plans were made by the Federals, and men were assembled for the attack, but at the time of the explosion improper execution of orders and confusion caused the venture to fail. In order to weaken the defense, an attack was made on the Confederate lines southeast of Richmond 2 days before the mine was to be exploded. As Grant expected, Lee rushed the greater part of his forces north of the James, which lef t less than men for the protection of Petersburg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.