Civil War Petersburg; Confederate city in the crucible of war.

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Civil War Petersburg; Confederate city in the crucible crucible, vessel in which a substance is heated to a high temperature, as for fusing or calcining. The necessary properties of a crucible are that it maintain its mechanical strength and rigidity at high temperatures and that it not react in an undesirable way with of war.

Greene, A. Wilson.

U. of Virginia Press

2006

363 pages

$34.95

Hardcover

A nation divided; new studies in Civil War history

F234

It was a prosperous small city, displaying more than its share of provincial charm alongside the Appomattox River Appomattox River

A river rising in south-central Virginia and flowing about 220 km (137 mi) eastward to the James River near Petersburg. , second only to Richmond in Virginia's population. It was near to open fields but held enough small industry to show potential for new wealth. Unfortunately, it was also part of a thoroughfare THOROUGHFARE. A street or way so open that one can go through and get out of it without returning. It differs from a cul de sac, (q.v.) which is open only at one end.
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, fills in the gaps in the literature of place and time in his account of this unique place with its high percentage of free African Americans and conservative Unionists. He shows how Petersburg entered the sentiment for war late but eventually enthusiastically, a decision which led to decimation DECIMATION. The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation. as the city became a way station for soldiers, a temporary haven for the wounded, and finally a near-ruin.

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