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City Under Siege
Mike Wright
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Description for City Under Siege
Paperback. An account of Richmond during the Civil War. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy when Virginia joined the Southern cause, marking the city as a prime target for the Union army. General McClellan was the first Union leader to lay siege to Richmond, and that was just the beginning. The attractive and genteel city of Richmond would be transformed into a refugee camp, a scene of riots, and a city-sized hospital before the war was over. Making use of diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts from the era, Wright brings readers face to face with the men and women who fought for the city, endured starvation, observed Lee's ... Read more
Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy when Virginia joined the Southern cause, marking the city as a prime target for the Union army. General McClellan was the first Union leader to lay siege to Richmond, and that was just the beginning. The attractive and genteel city of Richmond would be transformed into a refugee camp, a scene of riots, and a city-sized hospital before the war was over. Making use of diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts from the era, Wright brings readers face to face with the men and women who fought for the city, endured starvation, observed Lee's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780815412205
SKU
V9780815412205
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Ref
99-15
About Mike Wright
Mike Wright, author of What They Didn't Teach You about the American Revolution, lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Reviews for City Under Siege
Mike Wright has done a prodigious job of research and has made Civil War Richmond and its cast of people come alive, with glimpses of other battle theaters as a bonus.
Mary Hoehling, author of The Day Richmond Died
Mary Hoehling, author of The Day Richmond Died