A Grand Opening Squandered: The Battle for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 (Chick - CWC) 35178 Tagg’s groundbreaking book helps all

Tagg’s groundbreaking book helps all of us better understand the great man Lincoln was

The first letter he pulled from the bag opened with the line

and the contents of a never-before-seen contemporary scrapbook to explain how the country descended into civil war

Mort Künstler

A Grand Opening Squandered: The Battle for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 (Chick - CWC) 35178 Tagg’s groundbreaking book helps allby Sean Michael Chick (Author) The Battle of Petersburgs intense four day clash marked a missed Union opportunity, prolonging the Civil War with dramatic consequences. May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. Combined losses for the two armies after the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor exceeded 80,000 killed, wounded, and captured. The result? A stalemate