Definition of Petersburg campaign

1. Noun. The final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Petersburg Campaign

Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Seamus O'Toole
Peter Seeger
Peter Sellers
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Tchaikovsky
Peter principle
Peter the Great
Peterbald
Peterborough
Peterburg
Peters' ovum
Petersburg
Petersburg Campaign
Petersen
Peterson
Petey
Petit's aponeurosis
Petit's canals
Petit's hernia
Petit's ligament
Petit's lumbar triangle
Petit's sinus
Petra
Petrarca
Petrarch

Literary usage of Petersburg campaign

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1998)
"... WORKS BEFORE PETERSBURG - EXPLOSION OF THE MINE BEFORE PETERSBURG - CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY - CAPTURE OF THE WELDON RAILROAD. the 7th of June, ..."

2. History of the Thirty-seventh Regiment, Mass., Volunteers, in the Civil War by James Lorenzo Bowen (1884)
"THE petersburg campaign. AGAIN IN THE TRENCHES.—DAYS OF SIEGE.—AT HATCHER'S RUN.—PREPARING TO STRIKE.—FALL OF PETERSBURG. The Sixth Corps began to leave the ..."

3. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...by John Howard Brown by John Howard Brown (1904)
"In the petersburg campaign of 1864-Ü5, commanded a detachment at Fort Converse under Uen. Charles K. Graham, resigned on surgeon's certificate of disability ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"petersburg campaign (1864-65). The name of Petersburg is associated with operations in the American Civil War, which formed the sequel of the Wilderness ..."

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