The Battle of Cold Harbor is winding down. Union General Ulysses S. Grant, unable to penetrate Confederate defenses, is making plans to withdraw and grant a win to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. But Grant is not giving up, as he prepares his forces to cross the James River and push closer toward Petersburg, a…
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…
Today U. S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, days after being named commander of the United States Army, meets with Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Union’s western forces. Grant’s grand plan is to consolidate Union forces into two large armies in the theaters of Virginia and Georgia. From his base in Chattanooga, Sherman is…