so, it's kind of interesting to see howbo local folks got interested in it.well, to begin with in talking about appomattox campaign and go into the detail but basically it's from march 29th 1865 to april 9th 1865, nine april days as the book once said. but i found that that the nemesis of this campaign really started as tracy talked about the siege of petersburg in the beginning when lee's army was besieging the -- or when thenép: union army was besieging the confederate army outside of richmond to the northeast at cold harbor. grant, being unsuccessful in attacking the city, breaki>oaco cf1 o into the city, changed his tactics and moved around down to the james river and crossed over petersburg as tracy so ably told you. it was at that point that lee prof sized it will become a siege, meaning if he gets to petersburg, it will become a siege and then it will be a mere question of time. and in a one-sentence line i always refer to the siege of -- the 9 1/2 months siege of petters petters'sburg of the wearing down of the lee's army.