The guide is also helpful for visits to the many battlefields in the greater Petersburg and Richmond areas that have not yet been destroyed. From Deep Bottom to Hatcher’s Run and on to Five Forks, efforts by the National Park Service, the Commonwealth of Virginia, private citizens, generous “old guard” families, and a wonderful nonprofit, the Civil War Trust, have preserved an impressive amount of the old lines and battlefields. But we have not done enough. From New Market Heights to Reams Station, more ground can be preserved as great space and green space, honoring the famed, the forgotten, and the fallen.
You can do your part. Visit these parks and sites. Feel our history on ground both hallowed and haunted. Let your members of Congress know that you care about our National Battlefield Parks and our nation’s heritage. And if you can, please make a donation, however small, to the Civil War Trust.
When we save our past, we save our future.
Ralph Peters
September 11, 2015
RALPH PETERS’ NOVELS PUBLISHED BY FORGE
Cain at Gettysburg (Boyd Award)
Hell or Richmond (Boyd Award)
Valley of the Shadow
The Officers’ Club
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Shadows of Glory
Call Each River Jordan
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Ralph Peters is also the author of numerous books on strategy, as well as additional novels.
About the Author
Ralph Peters is an award-winning, bestselling novelist; a retired U.S. Army officer and former enlisted man; the author of numerous works on strategy; and a popular media commentator. In uniform and as a researcher and journalist, he has covered numerous conflicts and trouble spots, from Africa to the Caucasus, from Iraq to Pakistan.
Renowned for accuracy and authenticity, his Civil War writing, under his own name and as Owen Parry, has won numerous prizes, including the American Library Association’s W. Y. Boyd Literary Award (twice), the Hammett Prize, the Herodotus Award, and the Meade Society’s Order of Merit. In 2015, he received the Andrew J. Goodpaster Prize as an outstanding American soldier-scholar.
He is currently at work on the climactic fifth novel of the sequence that began with Cain at Gettysburg and continued through Hell or Richmond, Valley of the Shadow, and The Damned of Petersburg. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Part I: The Mine
One
Two
Three
Four
Part II: The Roads
Six
Seven
Part III: The Railroad
Eight
Part IV: The Station
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Part V: The Mill
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Also by Ralph Peters
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE DAMNED OF PETERSBURG
Copyright © 2016 by Ralph Peters
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Cover art: The Battle of the Crater by Tom Lovell © The Greenwich Workshop
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