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In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of siege to mining and countermining operations, the fashioning of wire entanglements and the laying of torpedo fields to impede attacks, and the construction of underground shelters to protect the men manning the works. In the Trenches at Petersburg humanizes the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle.
Dan set the ship at a distance from the man just a few feet in the air above the rock surface. The lower door of the craft opened. Dan stepped out onto the rock surface and walked slowly across the distance toward the survivor. "Hi stranger. I am from Ranger missions. My name is Dan. That is my ship. Who are you?" Dan had learned a few words of the dialect of the people in that region during other pickups. He did not expect more than the usual hand signs, stilted language words and gestures natural to conversation between people who spoke other dialects. "I am Pey." The man answered softly in Dan's language. He put the weapon back into its holster. "Where are you from?" He asked Dan. "We are from this planet." Dan assured him. "From one of the other continents." "I have observed ships like these in the
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The locater lists in alphabetical order every name in all the Social registers and indicates the family's head under which it may be found and the city in which the name appears.