After the failure to capture the city of Petersburg the previous week, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant decided on a siege and the Union army entrenched east of the city, running from near the Jerusalem Plank Road in the south to Bermuda Hundred in the north.
His Union army entrenched east of the city, running from near the Jerusalem Plank Road in the south to Bermuda Hundred in the north. After the failure to capture Petersburg the previous week, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant decided on a siege.
After the failure to capture Petersburg the previous week, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant decided on a siege. His Union army entrenched east of the city, running from near the Jerusalem Plank Road in the south to Bermuda Hundred in the north.
After the failure to capture Petersburg the previous week, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant decided on a siege. His Union army entrenched east of the city, running from near the Jerusalem Plank Road in the south to Bermuda Hundred in the north.