Part 1 of Essay
The Siege of Petersburg began on June 12th, 1864 and ended on April 3rd 1865, lasting a total of 292 days. To put the siege into perspective, I have included brief summaries of the Overland Campaign, the Shenandoah Campaign, and the Appomattox Campaign. The struggle for Petersburg has no equal in the entire war. All of th ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... General (a rank last held by George Washington), and appointed to General-in-Chief of the Army. The reputation he had gained in the West had boosted morale in Washington, where the news from their theater was not always encouraging. Now that he was put in charge of the entire Union effort, morale soared on the home front. However popular Grant was with the civilians, the soldiers remained skeptical. Grant may have done well against the Confederate Generals in the West, but he'd never met Bobby Lee. Af ....