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Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
Academic journal article from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 113, No. 4
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Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 * Earl J. Hess * Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005 * xix, 428 pp. * $45.00
For many Civil War enthusiasts, the Petersburg campaign of 1864-65 represented a sharp break with the first three years of the war. Confederate and Union armies abandoned costly frontal assaults and embraced the protection of complex chains of earthworks. According to this view, the final year of the war in Virginia had more in common with the Western Front of World War I than with the costly assaults of earlier years. Earl J. Hess challenges such long-standing assumptions and argues convincingly for the …
