PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Petersburg Campaign mean? 

• PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN (noun)
  The noun PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN has 1 sense:

1. the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee

  Familiarity information: PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Petersburg; Petersburg Campaign

Instance hypernyms:

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Domain region:

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Holonyms ("Petersburg Campaign" is a part of...):

American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)