...to carry the place by storm, and preceding the regular siege, which was called the battle of Petersburg, and it is of this that it is proposed to speak. In response to Beauregard's urgent calls, Hoke 's division was ordered to him on the 15th, and marched 12 M. Gracie's Brigade was dispatched later. These were his own troops which had been sent to Lee. At Chester Station, Hoke found partial tran...