ECW Podcast: A Grand Opening Squandered (with Sean Michael Chick)

Sean Michael Chick, author of “A Grand Opening Squandered,” talks about the battle of Petersburg. The battle, one of the bloodiest of the war, often gets lumped in with the nine-month siege, but Sean argues that it deserves closer attention than it has traditionally received.

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