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Civil War Combat, Crater at Petersburg
directed by Darryl Rehr; produced by Darryl Rehr, in Civil War Combat (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2002), 36 mins
It was a grinding siege, promising months in trenches baking with intense summer heat, but Union soldiers tunneled under ground where they would set off a massive bomb directly under the enemy lines. In the battle that followed the rebels should have been routed, but instead they rallied and Union troops became sn...
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directed by Darryl Rehr; produced by Darryl Rehr, in Civil War Combat (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2002), 36 mins
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It was a grinding siege, promising months in trenches baking with intense summer heat, but Union soldiers tunneled under ground where they would set off a massive bomb directly under the enemy lines. In the battle that followed the rebels should have been routed, but instead they rallied and Union troops became snared in a trap of their own making. They would die in defeat at a spot known as the Crater at Petersburg.
Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Darryl Rehr, Tony Jay, 1933-2006
Author / Creator
Darryl Rehr
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
Civil War Combat
Speaker / Narrator
Tony Jay, 1933-2006
Person Discussed
Ambrose Everett Burnside, 1824-1881, George Gordon Meade, 1815-1872, Henry Clay Pleasants, 1833-1880
Topic / Theme
Battles, Military engineering, Military strategy, Battle of the Crater, VA, July 30, 1864, American History, Civil War (1860–1865), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright 2008 A&E Television Networks
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Ken Burns's The Civil War, 7, Most Hallowed Ground
written by Ken Burns, 1953-, in Ken Burns's The Civil War, 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1990), 1 hour 12 mins
This episode of Ken Burns's The Civil War begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North h...
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written by Ken Burns, 1953-, in Ken Burns's The Civil War, 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1990), 1 hour 12 mins
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This episode of Ken Burns's The Civil War begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Linc...
This episode of Ken Burns's The Civil War begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln and the Confederacy’s last hope for independence dies. In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War, Lee’s Arlington mansion is turned into a Union military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery, the Union’s most hallowed ground.
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Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns's The Civil War
Person Discussed
Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1821-1877, Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891
Topic / Theme
Cemeteries, Elections, Military campaigns, Prisoner of war camps, Siege of Atlanta, GA, July 22, 1864-September 2, 1864, Siege of Petersburg, VA, June 18, 1864-April 2, 1865, American History, Civil War (1860–1865)
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©1989 Kenneth Lauren Burns. All Rights Reserved
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Unknown Civil War, The Petersburg Campaign
produced by Jaime Hellman, in Unknown Civil War (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2005), 45 mins
What started out to be Grant's simple pursuit by trying to gain 'possession of Lee's Army,' turned out to become one of the largest military campaigns of the Civil War.
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produced by Jaime Hellman, in Unknown Civil War (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2005), 45 mins
Description
What started out to be Grant's simple pursuit by trying to gain 'possession of Lee's Army,' turned out to become one of the largest military campaigns of the Civil War.
Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jaime Hellman
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
Unknown Civil War
Person Discussed
Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1822-1885, Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870
Topic / Theme
Military campaigns, Sieges, Intrenchments, Battle of the Crater, VA, July 30, 1864, Siege of Petersburg, VA, June 18, 1864-April 2, 1865, American History, Civil War (1860–1865), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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