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Richmond redeemed by Richard J. Sommers6/19/2023 Yet hard fighting and skillful generalship saved both cities. The corresponding fighting outside Petersburg at Poplar Spring Church so threatened Southern supply lines that General Lee considered abandoning his Petersburg rail center six months before actually doing so. The Union attack north of the James River at Chaffin’s Bluff broke through Richmond’s defenses and gave Federals their greatest opportunity to capture the Confederate capital. This monumental study focuses on Grant’s Fifth Offensive (September 29 – October 2, 1864), primarily the Battles of Chaffin’s Bluff (Fort Harrison) and Poplar Spring Church (Peebles’ Farm). Sommers’s masterpiece, in a revised Sesquicentennial edition, is once again available. The original (and long out of print) award-winning 1981 edition conveyed an epic narrative of crucial military operations in early autumn 1864 that had gone unrecognized for more than 100 years. Richmond Redeemed pioneered study of Civil War Petersburg. Winner, 2014, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
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