Robert E. Lee’s Confederates face significant reductions due to illness, casualties, and desertions while defending Petersburg and Richmond. Fighting erupts outside Richmond as Lee attempts to reclaim Fort Harrison.
Category: Virginia
The Battle of Peebles’s Farm: Day Two
Elements of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia prepare to renew their attack on Federals pushing to seize the final supply lines southwest of Petersburg, Virginia.
The Battle of Peebles’s Farm
While Federal forces attack the Confederate siege lines north of the James River, Ulysses S. Grant directs the Army of the Potomac to attack the Confederate line southwest of Petersburg.
The Battle of Chaffin’s Bluff
Benjamin F. Butler, commanding the Federal Army of the James, plans to send 20,000 men north to seize Confederate Forts Harrison and Gilmer, which make up a vital part of the Chaffin’s Bluff defenses southeast of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
Sheridan Causes the Greatest Consternation
Philip Sheridan’s Federals continue pursuing the Confederates in the Shenandoah, but Sheridan soon halts in accordance with Ulysses S. Grant’s directive to devastate the Valley instead.
The Battle of Fisher’s Hill
After defeating the Confederate Army of the Valley at Winchester, Philip Sheridan’s Federals pursue the enemy to a strong eminence blocking the path to the upper (southern) Shenandoah.