"The Battle of New Market Heights" Topic

"In the predawn darkness of September 29, 1864, black Union soldiers attacked a heavily fortified position on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond. In a few hours of desperate fighting, these African American soldiers struck a blow against Robert E. Lee's vaunted Army of Northern Virginia and proved to detractors that they could fight for freedom and citizenship for themselves and their enslaved brethren. For fourteen of the black soldiers who stormed New Market Heights that day, their bravery would be awarded with the nation's highest honor--the Congressional Medal of Honor. With vivid firsthand accounts and meticulous tactical detail, James S. Price brings the Battle of New Market Heights into brilliant focus, with maps by master cartographer Steven Stanley"

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Amicalement
Armand

I have this one and reviewed it several years ago:

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New Market Heights was the opening blow in the larger Fifth Offensive against Richmond during the Siege of Petersburg. Butler came very close to shattering the Confederate line southeast of Richmond and causing an evacuation of that city and Petersburg in September 1864 instead of April 1865. As Armand mentioned, this fight involved a USCT division under Butler's Army of the James. What's left unstated is that the Texas Brigade defended the Confederate position at New Market Heights. In what became somewhat of a controversy, the Texans left their position during the last assault. The Texans claimed they had been given orders to retreat to the main line, while the UCSTs believed that they forced the Texans from New Market Heights. Price covers all of this in detail. The maps are excellent, and would allow wargamers to recreate this fight in detail.