Ulysses S. Grant’s Federal Army of the Tennessee closes in on the Mississippi capital of Jackson as the two main Confederate forces in the state try to unite to stop the Federals.
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Virginia: More Fighting and Prisoner Exchange
October 6, 1864 – General Robert E. Lee discussed prisoner exchanges and made one more effort to take back Fort Harrison, southeast of Richmond. Lee’s Confederate
The Battle of the Wilderness: Day Two
May 6, 1864 – Fighting raged a second day as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant learned that General Robert E. Lee would not be an