A new general is in town and a new chapter in the ongoing battle for control of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley begins this day. Union General Philip Sheridan is the man, and Winchester is the town. Upon hearing of the approach of Sheridan’s forces, Confederate General Jubal Early evacuates his own forces rather than engage the…
In the Kennesaw Mountain area near Atlanta, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman continues pressing the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee toward Marietta. A portion of today’s fighting takes place at the Gilgal Baptist Church, a Hardshell Primitive Baptist log meeting house. As Federal forces near Confederate General Patrick Cleburne‘s troops who are stationed along a strategic…
The Battle of Cold Harbor is over, a battle in which Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia soundly defeats Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s the Army of the Potomac. Union casualties and losses total nearly 13,000, to the Confederates 5,300. Yet Grant, backed by a steady stream of new recruits entering Union…