Confederate forces under James Longstreet attack the Federal garrison at Suffolk, Virginia, south of the James River.
Tag: Samuel P. Lee
Mississippians Refuse to Learn Surrender
The Federal naval squadron of David G. Farragut tries following up its capture of New Orleans by pushing further up the Mississippi River. But they meet unexpected resistance.
Federals Stalled in Tennessee
December 21, 1864 – Major General George H. Thomas’s Federals struggled to pursue and destroy the rapidly disintegrating General John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee
The Johnsonville Raid
November 1, 1864 – Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederate cavalry moved south up the Tennessee River on two captured Federal transports to disrupt Federal
The Sinking of the C.S.S. Albemarle
October 28, 1864 – A young Federal officer led a daring raid to destroy the most dangerous Confederate vessel in North Carolina. The Confederate ironclad
The Siege of Petersburg Begins
June 20, 1864 – Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, the overall Federal commander, announced to his subordinates, “I have determined to try to envelop Petersburg.”