Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant surveys the results of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House thus far. The fighting has raged since May 8, but his forces have been unable to break through the entrenched Confederate lines. Casualties and losses have been extremely heavy, approaching 30,000 total for both sides, about 18,000 for the…
With the spring battle season drawing nigh, United States General Ulysses S. Grant, now head of all federal forces, today sends notice to the Confederacy that prisoner exchanges benefiting the South will no longer be allowed. Grant’s new prisoner exchange policy disallows one on one prisoner exchanges which are beneficial to the smaller Confederate Army.…
The reconstruction of Southern states takes another step forward today when Louisiana delegates assemble in New Orleans to debate the wording of a new constitution that will abolish slavery and restore the state to the Union. Although prior to the war Louisiana claimed some of the richest counties in the nation due to the presence…