Today the Confederates score another notable victory in a minor battle. Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his cavalry, utilizing guerrilla tactics, have already scored a number of prior victories. Today they strike again, this time at Brice’s Cross Roads in hotly-contested Mississippi. Again reflecting his strategical brilliance, Forrest defeats a much larger force…
In the Atlanta Campaign today, Union cavalry under General William T. Sherman are currently entrenched at Allatoona Pass, west of Atlanta. Here they control a railroad that provides access to supplies and troop reinforcements. On the morrow Sherman withdraws his soldiers from Dallas and begins moving them to Allatoona Pass in order to ascertain control…
A new battle in the Overland Campaign begins today: Cold Harbor. It will be unlike any fought thus far in the prolonged campaign. Today’s action takes the form of Union Major General Philip Sheridan, traveling ahead of Union soldiers from General Ulysses S. Grant‘s Army of the Potomac, seizing the important crossroads of Old Cold…