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For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned. In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, too. But their adversary in 1864 was a different kind of Union commander -- Ulysses S. Grant. The new Union general-in-chief had never lost a major battle while leading armies in the West. A quiet, rumpled man of simple tastes and a bulldog's determination, Grant would lead the Army of the Potomac in its quest to destroy Lee's army. During six weeks in May and June 1864, Grant's army campaigned as no Union army ever had. During nearly continual combat operations, the Army of the Potomac battered its way through Virginia, skirting Richmond and crossing the James River on one of the longest pontoon bridges ever built. No campaign in North American history was as bloody as the Overland Campaign. When it ended outside Petersburg, more than 100,000 men had been killed, wounded, or captured on battlefields in the Wilderness, near Spotsylvania Court House, and at Cold Harbor. Although Grant's casualties were nearly twice Lee's, the Union could replace its losses. The Confederacy could not. Lee's army continued to fight brilliant defensive battles, but it never mounted another major offensive. Grant's spring 1864 campaign had tipped the scales permanently in the Union's favor. The war's denouement came less than a year later with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.… (meer)
Bloody Spring covers the battles of Grant's Overland Campaign across Virginia, from the Wilderness to Petersburg, in May and June of 1864. For the first three years of the war, Lincoln had been exasperated by the lack of progress by his Eastern generals. After Grant's successes in the West, Lincoln promoted him to general-in-chief over all union forces.
Lee and his lieutenants had grown complacent, but Grant would soon prove that the Union forces would fight. By the time the Overland Campaign ended, more than 100,000 had been killed, captured, or wounded. Lee's forces were so depleted that he never initiated another major offensive, and the war would end within a year. ( )
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To the memory of my father, John R Wheelan, USMC (Ret.), who knew firsthand what war is
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(Prologue) Monday, May 2, 1864, Clark's Mountain, Virginia - Below the mountaintop, where Robert E Lee and his eleven lieutenants were gathered, the Rapidan River flowed peacefully eastward toward its reunion with the Rappahannock.
Tuesday, March 8, 1864, Washington DC - The Washington press corps had never seen General Ulysses S. Grant, which complicated their job of reporting on his arrival at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot.
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If I am obliged to retire from this line, either by a flank movement of the enemy or the want of supplies, great injury will befall us. - Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis
An ordinary, scrubby-looking man, with a slightly seedy look, as if he was out of office on half pay. - Description of Ulysses S. Grant in March 1864
You may be assured he is not an ordinary man. _ General George Meade on Grant
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Lee had grimly told him, "We must destroy this army of Grant's before he gets to the James River. If he gets there, it will become a siege, and then it will be a mere question of time."
(Epilogue) While Grant pinned Lee to Petersburg, Sherman and Sheridan would "skin" in Georgia and the Shenandoah Valley, assuring Lincoln's reelection and, ultimately, Union victory.
For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned. In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, too. But their adversary in 1864 was a different kind of Union commander -- Ulysses S. Grant. The new Union general-in-chief had never lost a major battle while leading armies in the West. A quiet, rumpled man of simple tastes and a bulldog's determination, Grant would lead the Army of the Potomac in its quest to destroy Lee's army. During six weeks in May and June 1864, Grant's army campaigned as no Union army ever had. During nearly continual combat operations, the Army of the Potomac battered its way through Virginia, skirting Richmond and crossing the James River on one of the longest pontoon bridges ever built. No campaign in North American history was as bloody as the Overland Campaign. When it ended outside Petersburg, more than 100,000 men had been killed, wounded, or captured on battlefields in the Wilderness, near Spotsylvania Court House, and at Cold Harbor. Although Grant's casualties were nearly twice Lee's, the Union could replace its losses. The Confederacy could not. Lee's army continued to fight brilliant defensive battles, but it never mounted another major offensive. Grant's spring 1864 campaign had tipped the scales permanently in the Union's favor. The war's denouement came less than a year later with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Lee and his lieutenants had grown complacent, but Grant would soon prove that the Union forces would fight. By the time the Overland Campaign ended, more than 100,000 had been killed, captured, or wounded. Lee's forces were so depleted that he never initiated another major offensive, and the war would end within a year. ( )