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Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
Earl J. Hess
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Description for Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
The battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most famous engagements in American military history. Although the bloody combat of that ""horrid pit"" has been recently revisited as the centerpiece of the novel and film versions of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, the battle has yet to receive a definitive historical study. Distinguished Civil War historian Earl J. Hess fills that gap in the literature of the Civil War with Into the Crater. The Crater was central in Ulysses S. Grant's ... Read more
The battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most famous engagements in American military history. Although the bloody combat of that ""horrid pit"" has been recently revisited as the centerpiece of the novel and film versions of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, the battle has yet to receive a definitive historical study. Distinguished Civil War historian Earl J. Hess fills that gap in the literature of the Civil War with Into the Crater. The Crater was central in Ulysses S. Grant's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570039225
SKU
V9781570039225
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About Earl J. Hess
Earl J. Hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee. He is author or editor of nine other books, including Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 (from the University of North Carolina Press).
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