What was the Siege of Petersburg?

[@jankovarik9714]

I'm lovin' these short, information-packed videos!!!

[@DeclanConnor-y1j]

I was just in Petersburg a couple of days ago and it was my first time ever. Amazing place and is the greatest spot to visit if you want to see some nice defenses and forts.

[@dadsongs]

Sometimes, a video that explains why something WASN'T doesn't do it for me, but this one DID! Thanks so much.

[@ctcdarkness]

I grew up less than a mile away from fort fisher. My house stood where one of the medical camps for the union was placed along the line of smaller dug outs behind fort fisher. The road I grew up on is actually called Fort fisher CT. Have been to pamplin park and the jones farm battlefield many times.

[@terryeustice5399]

Thank you for sharing. Maybe some details will becoming. This almost a year Campaign. ❤️💯👊👍

[@thewonderer4808]

Waiting for the next part in Mr. Greene's series on Petersburg lol

[@donaldsonalan35]

Sorry I'm being Grant right now but I love your videos

[@stonesinmyblood27]

Also in May 1864, Grant sent Gen Butler and navy ships to attack Petersburg but Butler gave up and just destroyed the rail line between Petersburg and Richmond

[@jankovarik9714]

I appreciated the better explanation of the concept of "siege"!

[@outdoorlife5396]

Petersburg was a lot more complicated than Vicksburg. First you had all the RR intersecting and the confederates put up more of a fight, I think. The other is I do not think Grant knew exactly what the enemies' numbers were. The way Lee kept moving people around. I am surprised that the battle of the crater was the only tunnel to the enemies' lines that I am aware of. If you look at the war, Richmond, like Washington, was always well defended when other parts of the csa where not. I am an old soldier and amateur historian, just thinking out loud. It doesn't make either one of us Right or Wrong. We have the pleasure of looking at it in the hindsight. Hindsight is 20/20, lol.

[@nathanhardin8530]

My great great great grandfather was severely wounded at Petersburg on June 18th, 1864.

[@jamesmccarthy5086]

A few months back I got a book on this Campaign. It’s called The Last Citadel by Noah Andre Trudeau. It looks good, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. ( gotta finish The Somme by Peter Hart first!) I find it interesting how this Siege is considered ok yet when McClellan wanted to do a Siege at Richmond and Yorktown he’s heavily criticized. Why?

[@SamuelRowe-gi8vf]

I think it is because when McClellan was attempting to siege, in 1862, the North wanted the war won as quickly as possible and a siege wasn't going to do that. Whereas when Grant was sieging Petersburg, in 1864, the North just wonted the war to end plus they trusted Grant a bit more than McClellan.

[@jamesmccarthy5086]

@@SamuelRowe-gi8vf that makes sense. It’s so frustrating that not many historians take that into account. I like to see the other side of things and the discrepancy here just makes me want to keep going!

[@zzbudzz]

Thanks for the suggested Book. I just ordered it. I have lived in the surrounding area of Petersburg all my life. I live on the Lee's retreat to Appomattox CH now . Also my great great grand father Joshua Lundy Nicholson fought in this battle under General Mahone.( I believe) He was later "paroled" at Appomattox . He possible could have walked across my front yard during this retreat. I wish I could find more information about where his unit fought and traveled during the war.

[@jamesmccarthy5086]

@@zzbudzz if you do find out more I’d love to know! I still haven’t gotten around to it, ( Petersburg book) but I do want to read it, from just scanning the book, it looks amazing! I wish I lived closer to the Civil War Battlefields, I’d visit them every day! And also I’m also a big WWI buff

[@EverettBaland]

On my to do list.

[@DanKetchum007]

Good. But something lengthier and more detailed would be great.

[@tombrennan6312]

I appreciate your explaining what makes for a proper siege, which of course Petersburg wasn't: no investment-no siege. I consider it a fortified confrontation, like the Western Front during WW I but on a much smaller scale.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Longest campaign....barely known, talked about, or examined.

[@bigsarge2085]

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