Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia sustains its worst defeat of the war while trying to elude Federal pursuers west of Richmond.
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Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia sustains its worst defeat of the war while trying to elude Federal pursuers west of Richmond.
Fighting erupts south of Petersburg, Virginia, when Ulysses S. Grant looks to seize extend his Federal siege line and cut a key Confederate supply line.