The nine-month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the Civil War. Large-scale Union offensives-grand maneuvers that triggered some of the large-scale battles-broke the monotony of siege warfare. This is tactical battle action at is finest. Horn's explanation for the context and consequences of every decision is grounded in hundreds of primary sources and supported by 40 original maps. This is the first full-length book to put Grant's second effort into its proper perspective-not only in the context of Petersburg's siege and the Civil War, but in the context of warfare's history--