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    known as the siege of Petersburg, it was not a classic military siege, in which a city is encircled with fortifications blocking all routes of ingress and...
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    The siege of Leningrad (Russian: Блокада Ленинграда, romanized: Blokada Leningrada; German: Leningrader Blockade; Finnish: Leningradin piiritys, Italian:...
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    Archibald Gracie III (category People of Alabama in the American Civil War)
    and December 1864, Gracie served in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg. On December 1, Gracie's 32nd birthday, his second...
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    Dictator" on railroad cars during the siege of Petersburg. The Civil War was the first major war to see the use of rifled artillery. Rifling gave the guns...
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    in the war at Richmond. The 1864–65 Siege of Petersburg, which included the Battle of the Crater and nine months of trench warfare devastated the city...
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  • the siege of Petersburg of the American Civil War. The following order of battle is the organization from the Confederate forces near Petersburg of October...
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    the Siege of Petersburg). Union forces under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General George G. Meade attempted to capture Petersburg, Virginia...
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  • Battle of Petersburg may refer to: Siege of Petersburg, or the Richmond–Petersburg campaign, occurring in and near Petersburg, Virginia from June 9, 1864...
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    Virginia in the area of Petersburg, Virginia, at the end of the 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (sometimes called the Siege of Petersburg) and in the beginning...
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    Petersburg National Battlefield is a National Park Service unit preserving sites related to the American Civil War Siege of Petersburg (1864–65). The battlefield...
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    Bushrod Johnson (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    the Battle of Fort Donelson, but was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. He served under Robert E. Lee throughout the 10-month Siege of Petersburg, and surrendered...
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  • 4 April 1585, during the Spanish siege of Antwerp, a fortified bridge named "Puente Farnesio" (after the commander of the Spanish forces, Alessandro Farnese)...
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  • Bely Siege of Petersburg, a battle of the American Civil War SS Petersburg, an oil tanker Search for "Petersburg" on Wikipedia. Battle of Petersburg (disambiguation)...
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  • The order of battle for the Siege of Petersburg includes: Siege of Petersburg order of battle: Confederate Siege of Petersburg order of battle: Union...
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    56th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Massachusetts)
    Spotsylvania Courthouse, and the Battle of the Crater. They were involved in several assaults during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and participated in the spring...
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  • 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Pennsylvania)
    served in the Siege of Petersburg from June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865, including the Second Battle of Petersburg on June 16–18 and the Battle of Jerusalem...
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    The Battle of the Crater took place during the American Civil War, part of the Siege of Petersburg. It occurred on Saturday, July 30, 1864, between the...
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    2nd Maryland Infantry Regiment (Confederate) (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Maryland)
    rail to Petersburg, where they set up defensive breastworks. The Siege of Petersburg was underway, and for the next few months the men lived in their...
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    George Pickett (category American people of English descent)
    participated in the Siege of Petersburg. General Pickett had received orders from Robert E. Lee to, with the Cavalry divisions of Major Generals William...
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    nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with Confederate forces, the Army of Tennessee in North Carolina...
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    Ely S. Parker (category American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law)
    the Siege of Petersburg. At Petersburg, Parker was appointed as the military secretary to Grant, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He wrote much of Grant's...
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    Rhode Island army officers ate for their Fourth of July celebrations during the siege of Petersburg. Food portal Congee Sago pudding Rice pudding Semolina...
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    Robert E. Lee (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
    before the lengthy Siege of Petersburg, which was followed in April 1865 by the capture of Richmond and the destruction of most of Lee's army, which he...
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  • Pleasant Crump (category People of Alabama in the American Civil War)
    to Company A, Crump saw action at the Battle of Hatcher's Run, and participated in the siege of Petersburg before witnessing General Robert E. Lee's surrender...
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    29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Massachusetts)
    with the Army of the Potomac, just in time to take part in the Overland campaign and the siege of Petersburg. During the siege of Petersburg, the unit suffered...
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    Joshua Chamberlain (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    returned to the Army of the Potomac and was promoted to brigade commander shortly before the Siege of Petersburg and given command of the 1st Brigade, First...
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    railroad hub, resulting in a nine-month siege. Northern resentment grew. Sheridan was assigned command of the Union Army of the Shenandoah and Grant directed...
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    nearly all of the major battles in the Eastern Theater, such as Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg. The corps...
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    Henry Jackson Hunt (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
    He served in Virginia to the end of the war, managing the siege operations of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. He was breveted major general both in the...
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    significant battles raged around the ten-month Siege of Petersburg, gateway to the Confederate capital of Richmond. The Confederates abandoned Richmond...
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