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The Battle of Sayler’s Creek

April 6, 2020 WalterCoffey

April 6, 1865 – General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia sustained its worst defeat of the war while trying to elude Federal

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The Second Battle of the Weldon Railroad

August 18, 2019 WalterCoffey

August 18, 1864 – Fighting broke out southwest of the Petersburg siege lines when Federals tried moving beyond the Confederates’ flank to sever the Weldon

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The Battle of the Crater

July 30, 2019 WalterCoffey

July 30, 1864 – An ill-fated plan to detonate gunpowder under the Confederate trenches at Petersburg, Virginia, resulted in a disastrous Federal defeat. As Federals

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The Battle of Ream’s Station

June 29, 2019 WalterCoffey

June 29, 1864 – A Federal cavalry force was nearly destroyed while trying to raid two railroads supplying the Confederates in Petersburg, Virginia. Lieutenant General

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The Battle of the Weldon Railroad

June 23, 2019 WalterCoffey

June 23, 1864 – Fighting broke out clashed as the Federals sought to extend their left flank and cut the railroad south of Petersburg, Virginia.

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The Battle of Spotsylvania Begins

May 8, 2019 WalterCoffey

May 8, 1864 – After two terrible days in the Wilderness, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant led the Federal Army of the Potomac into a

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