Exploring the most important 55 months in American history
Federal siege operations resume in front of Petersburg, Virginia, after the disastrous defeat at the Crater. Ulysses S. Grant seeks new strategies to outmaneuver the Confederate defenders, including a failed canal project and attempts to probe weak points in their defenses.
Philip Sheridan is assigned to command the new Army of the Shenandoah. Sheridan’s objective is to protect Washington while clearing Jubal Early’s Confederates out of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley once and for all.