Comments on: Interview: Bryce A. Suderow, “The Petersburg Campaign” http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/interview-bryce-suderow-the-petersburg-campaign/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Evans http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/interview-bryce-suderow-the-petersburg-campaign/#comment-22932 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:33:45 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10730#comment-22932 Great interview. Looks to be some excellent work by Bearss and Savas publishing.

I have been fascinated with the Petersburg Campaign ever since getting ‘The Last Citadel’ by Trudeau for my birthday. Frassanito’s book of photographs on the campaign is also a favorite of mine.

I think the best regimental history that covers Petersburg is ‘Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865′ by Warren Wilkinson. He really brings home the horrors of the campaign and siege. His writing is some of the best ever done on a Civil War regiment after Pullen.

Chris

]]> By: Damian Shiels http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/interview-bryce-suderow-the-petersburg-campaign/#comment-22916 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:27:27 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10730#comment-22916 Thanks for this interview Harry- my copy of the book just arrived recently, I am greatly looking forward to it. It is amazing how many histories gloss over Petersburg, especially early regimental works and even eye-witness memoirs. I imagine a major reason for this is that major war-weariness had set in by this point. At any rate it is certainly difficult to come across clear narratives relating to Irish participants in many of these engagements.

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