The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War. Surprisingly few readers, however, are aware that Petersburg's citizens felt war's hard hand nearly a week before the armies of Grant and Lee arrived on their doorstep in the middle of June 1864.
Revised edition of: The battle of old men and young boys, June 9, 1864. Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1989.
