Trench Warfare under Grant & Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Mountcastle, John W | Copyright information

Trench Warfare under Grant & Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign * Earl J. Hess * Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 * xviii, 313 pages * $39.95

This is the second in a series of books Earl Hess is writing on field fortifications during the Civil War. His first study focused on fortifications used by Union and Confederate forces in the eastern theater from 1861 until 1864. This book explains the critically important role of hastily constructed fiel...

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