In March 1865, General Robert E. Lee sought to break the Union siege of Petersburg, Virginia by launching a series of attacks against the Union forces. These attacks became known as the Battle of Fort Stedman, and despite some initial success in capturing the fort, Lee's offensive ultimately failed, leading to further weakening of the Confederate position.

It was due to an overload of the Confederacy's dwindling resources and a hard winter.

The address of the Historic Petersburg Foundation Inc is: Po Box 691, Petersburg, VA 23804-0691

Grant and Meade entered Petersburg in the morning of 3rd April 1865 at 9,00 AM. They were joined after a while by President Lincoln accompanied by the Admirals Porter and Farragut.

The siege of Petersburg was an example of "Trench Warfare", with two armies facing each other in an endless battle of attrition, like those which would have been fought during the WW1 on the European western front.

The siege of Petersburg was important because Lee was pinned down to defend

the fortified system Richmond-Petersburg and the vital railroads and communication lines which fed the Confederate Army of the Northern Virginia and Richmond with its industrial and military factories. Therefore, having lost his freedom of movement he was subjected to Grant's initiative in an endless

war of attrition that was slowly leading to an inevitable collapse of his army, due to its inferior number and equipment, whose losses were getting more and more difficult to replace.

The final loss of the Shenandoah Valley after the annihilation of Early's Confederate army further worsened the situation, making available Sheridan's Cavalry Corps for the set up of a powerful mobile force that was employed to outflank the Rebel defensive line southwest Petersburg and the consequent evacuation of both Richmond and Petersburg by Lee's army, on April 2,1865, after the battle of Five Forks, fought the day before.

The siege of Petersburg lasted from June 15, 1864 to April 3, 1865 at 4,28 AM, when the Federal Units entered the city.

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The Transportation and distibution of supplies going from City point to the Petersburg Front evolved as follows:

1 - An already existing railroad was properly repaired allowing the flux of reinforcement and supplies from City Point up to the front, linking the Union Headquarter and the logist base to the entrenchments.

2 - Behind those and side by side was built a new military railroad which allowed the quick displacement of men, artilleries, munition and supplies from one to the other point of the front.

3 - At City Point were built large piers and jetties for the berthing and docking of the ships, warehouses and barracks.

The Siege of Petersburg lasted from June 1864 to April 1865 and resulted in Union victory. The Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant successfully captured the city of Petersburg, Virginia, which cut off key supply lines to Richmond, the Confederate capital. This victory eventually led to the fall of Richmond and the collapse of the Confederacy.

Because after the failed attempt to take Petersburg by assault carried on June 15, 1864 by the XVIII Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the battle became a siege, that gave the start to a trench warfare like that one fought on the EuropeanWestern Front of the WW1.

Furthermore because it deprived Lee once for all of his freedom of movement, making him pinned down to Grant's initiative and to a war of attrition that, thanks to the Union's great superiority in terms of men and means, would have led to the collapse of the Confederate Eastern Front.

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