Ulysses S. Grant orchestrates an all-out Federal offensive in which all major Federal armies are to launch a joint attack. One part of this offensive gets under way as Federals are on the move in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
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Ulysses S. Grant orchestrates an all-out Federal offensive in which all major Federal armies are to launch a joint attack. One part of this offensive gets under way as Federals are on the move in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
Joseph Wheeler’s Confederate cavalry force enters the Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee to raid the supply lines of William S. Rosecrans’s Federal Army of the Cumberland.