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By relating the development of the army's field engineering to the course of the combat action, and through the use of previously untapped sources, Hess brilliantly unravels the complexity of the Petersburg story. This is simply one of the finest Civil War studies of our generation. --A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park, author of The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign Earl Hess has written the finest study of the Petersburg Campaign in more than a century. By relating the development of the army's field engineering to the course of the combat action, and through the use of previously untapped sources, Hess brilliantly unravels the complexity of the Petersburg story. This is simply one of the finest Civil War studies of our generation. --A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park, author of The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign The last volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy on field fortifications in the East completes a figurative breakthrough as impressive as Grant's literal breakthrough at Petersburg. It and its companion volumes, displaying a masterful blend of narrative, description, and analysis, are among the most significant Civil War studies of this or any time. --J. Tracy Power, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, author of Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox

""By relating the development of the army's field engineering to the course of the combat action, and through the use of previously untapped sources, Hess brilliantly unravels the complexity of the Petersburg story. This is simply one of the finest Civil War studies of our generation.""--A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park, author of ""The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign"" ""Earl Hess has written the finest study of the Petersburg Campaign in more than a century. By relating the development of the army's field engineering to the course of the combat action, and through the use of previously untapped sources, Hess brilliantly unravels the complexity of the Petersburg story. This is simply one of the finest Civil War studies of our generation.""--A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park, author of ""The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign"" ""The last volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy on field fortifications in the East completes a figurative breakthrough as impressive as Grant's literal breakthrough at Petersburg. It and its companion volumes, displaying a masterful blend of narrative, description, and analysis, are among the most significant Civil War studies of this or any time.""--J. Tracy Power, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, author of ""Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox""

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