"The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland Campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having out maneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War."--Jacket.

Includes maps of: March to the James River; Baylor's Farm; XVIII Corps Attacks the Dimmock Line; Bermuda Hundred Area; II Corps Attacks; Potter's Assault; Willcox's Assault; Gould's Charge; Breaking Gould's Salient; Second General Advance; Third General Advance.

From the Rapidan to the Chickahominy: March 10-June 3, 1864 -- From the Chickahominy to the James: June 4-14, 1864 -- Day one: Wednesday, June 15, 1864 -- Day two: Thursday, June 16, 1864 -- Day three: Friday, June 17, 1864 -- Day four: Saturday, June 18, 1864 -- Ten months at Petersburg: June 19, 1864-April 26, 1865 -- Civil War memory and the Battle of Petersburg.