Confederate Alamo

The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: "Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best." —Civil War News By April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant''s men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee''s Army of Northern Virginia h...