Lee Besieged: Grant’s Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18-July 1, 1864 (John Horn - CWC) 35178 Captain John Bigelow institutes strict

Captain John Bigelow institutes strict discipline and rigorous training which causes the men

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His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time

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Lee Besieged: Grant’s Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18-July 1, 1864 (John Horn - CWC) 35178 Captain John Bigelow institutes strictby John Horn The nine month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, it was anything but static trench warfare, as John Horn ably demonstrates in Lee Besieged: Grants Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18 July 1, 1864. Large scale Union offensivesgrand maneuvers that triggered some of the large scale battlesbroke the monotony of siege warfare. Once his First Offensive (the assaults of June