DK - The American Civil War

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The Battle of Cold Harbor Grant’s maneuvers were blocked once more by Lee’s army, which constructed a 7-mile (11-km) line of fie ...

THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR fields of fire, staked out with measured distances so that the artillery could better estimate range. ...

Grant Advances to Petersburg Having brilliantly extricated his Union army from Cold Harbor, Grant soon had many of his troops an ...

GRANT ADVANCES TO PETERSBURG Grant had wanted to avoid a protracted siege at Petersburg, but his failure to take the city when t ...

Army supply base Soldiers sit on a bank above the Union supply depot at Cumberland Landing on the Pamunkey River during the 1862 ...

pork, dried peas, tents, blankets, overcoats, lumber, axes, shovels, saddles, bridles, harnesses, bullets, bandages, and coffins ...

UNION WAGON TRAIN Any large-scale invasion of enemy territory during the Civil War presented formidable problems of logistics. G ...

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The Valley Campaign In the war’s final duel for control of the strategic Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, Confederate General Juba ...

THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN With Sheridan’s triumph at Cedar Creek, the guns began to fall silent on one of the most significant battleg ...

S carcely bigger than a drummer boy, “Little Phil” Sheridan must have looked an improbable candidate to become, one day, general ...

colonelcy of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry. Sheridan then saw combat in most of the major encounters in the West: Perryville, Stones ...

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Also known as the Battle of Belle Grove, the Battle of Cedar Creek erupted on October 19, 1864, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. ...

gunpowder, totaling four tons of charge, sandbagged to direct the force upward. The miners retraced their steps, unwinding a 98- ...

Railroad, only to be beaten back by A. P. Hill and Wade Hampton in a brutal two-day fight at Peebles’ Farm. On October 27, Grant ...

V icksburg remains the classic example of a Civil War siege. On May 25, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant, looking up the bluff at ...

around its outskirts. Regular approaches were never attempted, although Sherman did bring up four 4.5-in (114-mm) rifled guns th ...

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