Today in the Virginia near Petersburg, Union forces set to gain control of the Bodyton Plank Road, in an effort to cut off the South Side Railroad, a rail line critical to the supplying of Petersburg. Over the course of the two day engagement, the Federals manage to wrest control of the roadway from the…
Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant telegrams General William T. Sherman, in response to Sherman’s request to march from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying Confederate infrastructure and supplies along the way. “If you are satisfied the trip to the sea coast can be made holding the line of the Tennessee river firmly,” Grant tells Sherman, “you…
Skirmishes continue in north Georgia as Rebels strive to disrupt Union supply lines between Nashville and Atlanta. Attacking the Union-occupied cities of the Deep South is out of the question for the vastly weakened Confederacy’s Army of the Tennessee. Being an annoyance and worry to the Federals is about the best the Rebels can do…