Lee Besieged: Grant’s Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18-July 1, 1864 (John Horn - CWC) Section - Gettysburg Monuments The Union Cavalry Comes of

The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station

000 Confederate prisoners held at Point Lookout

the June 26 skirmish at Gettysburg and the fight at the Witmer Farm

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Lee Besieged: Grant’s Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18-July 1, 1864 (John Horn - CWC) Section - Gettysburg Monuments The Union Cavalry Comes ofby John Horn 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: Grants Second Petersburg Offensive, June 18 July 1, 1864. Large scale Union offensivesgrand maneuvers that triggered some of the large scale battlesbroke the monotony of siege warfare. Once his First Offensive (the assaults of June