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Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg is an astonishing work of scholarship. The author, Richard Sommers, earned a Ph. D. at Rice University under noted historian Frank Vandiver. He went on to 35 years as Senior Historian of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center at Carlisle Barracks and as a professor at the U.S. Army War College. I have been a reader of military histories for over 50 years and Dr. Sommers book is, perhaps, the most thorough and in-depth history of a battle Ive read. If you are interested in a window on a key phase of Grants operations, including the Union attack on Chaffins Bluff and the Battle of Peebless Farm (also known as Poplar Springs Church), you could not do better than to start here. Expanding on his efforts, Dr. Sommers wrote in the books preface:...it is based upon research among thousands of sources in over 100 manuscript repositories and libraries from Maine to California and from Minnesota to Florida. Some 1,234 of these sources, representing material actually used, are entered in the bibliography. Within that list, 71 per cent of the entries are unpublished sources. The 1981 Doubleday hardback edition contains 449 pages of text with another 221 pages of appendices, notes, bibliography and index – all devoted solely to Grants Fifth Offensive against Petersburg from 29 September through 2 October, 1864. In addition, it provides an excellent example of the use of maps in a book of military history. There is a good hand-drawn map every 15-20 pages. These maps follow each movement of the operations presented in the text, in chronological order, with attention to the roads, rivers, hills, ravines, fortifications, units involved, and their movements at specific times during each day of the campaign. One shortcoming is the maps lack a scale. Unfortunately, I can find no credit given in the foreword, acknowledgments section, bibliography or on the maps themselves for the cartographer or source. Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg covers the operations north of the James River by Ben Butlers Army of the James and those south of the river by Meades Army of the Potomac along the Boydton Plank Road. Sommers establishes the argument that Grants ultimate success grew, despite repeated tactical setbacks, from pinning the Army of Northern Virginia in place around the Petersburg front. Grant knew Lee could not withstand a prolonged, toe-to-toe, slugfest. He understood his strengths and learned from his disappointments. After the disasters of July 1864, Grant forbade frontal assaults. He, instead, pursued maneuver, coordinated multi-front advances, and the steady wearing away of Lees forces through concerted pressure. In summing up the Fifth Offensive, Sommers wrote:Grant launched the operation to achieve three objectives: to prevent reinforcements from leaving the Tidewater for the Valley, to capture Richmond, and to cut at least the Boydton Plank Road, with the Southside Railroad a promising second target and Petersburg itself a possible prize. Not one of these did he gain...Grant for all his setbacks, succeeded in holding his initial conquests. They became staging areas for future attacks...his gains in early autumn formed another tightening of the grip in the stranglehold he was fixing on the Army of Northern Virginia. In that sense, he lost most of the battles and still won his Fifth Offensive at Petersburg.Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg earned Four Stars from me. I penalized Dr. Sommers for a lack of narrative zest. His intense focus and depth too frequently bogged down and undermined the books impetus. At times, the text dragged along with details of staff work, administrative minutiae, and military jealousies within the Union hierarchy. Dr. Sommers is a better scholar than writer. Stylish prose is not his strong suit. One oddity noted: Sommers revealed an inordinate fondness for the French martial noun voltigeur. He used it dozens of times throughout the text in lieu of the common American term skirmishers.Here is a link to Dr. Sommers C-SPAN presentation on the subject of the siege of Petersburg:http://www.c-span.org/video/?322035-1...
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