Lee Besieged

A vivid account of Grant’s daring but thwarted Second Offensive during the Petersburg siege, where tactical brilliance met fierce Confederate resistance. The nine-month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, it was anything but static trench warfare, as John Horn ably demonstrates in Lee Besieged: Grant’s Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18–July 1, 1864 . Large-scale Union “offensives,” grand maneuvers that often triggered major ba