Philip Sheridan embarks on a Federal cavalry raid intended to disrupt Confederate supply lines and destroy the famed command of Jeb Stuart. Sheridan engages the Confederates just a few miles outside Richmond, where Stuart is mortally wounded.
Tag: George G. Meade
Spotsylvania: Attacking the Mule Shoe
Ulysses S. Grant learns that his Federal Army of the Potomac has lost the race to Spotsylvania Court House to Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant approves a massed assault on a salient in Lee’s defense line, which results in more horrific casualties.
The Battle of the Wilderness: Day Two
Fighting rages a second day in the Wilderness as Ulysses S. Grant learns that Robert E. Lee would not be an easy foe to overcome.
The Battle of the Wilderness
The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia catches the Federal Army of the Potomac in the forbidding Wilderness. Both sides engage in fierce combat, with confusing and chaotic fighting in the dense brush marking the opening of the spring campaign.
Obstinate Fighting is Apprehended
Final preparations are made for the massive Federal offensive about to take place in northern Virginia.
The Grand Federal Offensive Begins
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.