Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant moved south to the court house and lee gets awe finger of his army in front of grant and blocks him and theres brutal fighting in places with names like the mule shoe and the bloody age that will goes on for over a week, will be 10 days and then finally grant realizes he cant break through there so grant maneuvers again. He pulls the union army out from spots vain yeah courthouse and send the finger
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D he gives grant basically a twopart requirement, first to Bring Organization to the union war effort. And secondly to defeat the army of Northern Virginia. And grant goes about making it possible to carry out that charge with a vengeance. First he put together a Program Unlike any the war has yet seen. He realized up to this point battles would last a couple of days and armies would pull apart for months. Grant would not let that happen anymore. They would fight them until they were destroyed. He also realized the old goal of capturing territory didnt make sense anymore. Hence the goal would be to destroy them and only by doing that could the rebellion be brought to a close. And finally he realized they had to move together so the confederates couldnt shift from one theater to the other. We are going to see opening campaigns in the east grant riding with the army and in the west under the direction of grants close friend and subordinate general sherman and these will be bat thals will
I appreciate it. As i told you folks i talked with his morning, it is an honor for me to be here. There is Something Special about the battlefield here at cold harbor. I came about my interest in the american civil war, im sure like most of you did. I got it from my father. My dad was born in 1901 and a little town on the tennesseealabama border that was only 35 years after the end of the american civil war. As you might imagine, most of those old men sitting around the Grocery Store were confederate veterans. He grew up listening to their tall tales and talking with them about their battles. I was born in 1945. When i grow up, what all of my friends were hearing fairy tales and stories from their parents, my dad was reading the books with names like lees lieutenants, stuff like that. We visited the battlefield. We did not make any trips to cold harbor, though, because there really was not that much here. The overland campaign, which is the campaign that brings grant and lead to where
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