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.
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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.
Ulysses S. Grant’s Federal forces move to assault both ends of the Confederate siege line stretching from Richmond to Petersburg.