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
Can take petersburg, cut the supply line to the army in Northern Virginia, and finally defeat lee. The union plan works like clock work. Sheridan heads off on his raid. It will end disastrously at the battle of torrian station, but it serves its purpose for the time. And on the morning of the 13th of june, lee and his men look across and discover that the union earth works are empty. Grant once again has managed to pull his army away without lee figuring out what had happened. The union army swings south, down to the james river. Grant intends to cross. But lee does not understand what grant means to do. Lee thinks that what grant might be preparing to do is to swing back toward Richmond North of the james river. So lee stays here at cold harbor, sends some of his soldiers to the south, but doesnt do a major shift, because, again, hes uncertain as to what grant will do. Well, as you civil war historians know, by june 15th, union forces are attacking at petersburg. Lee is now alerted to
And that he apparently acted alone shooting at random. They say it does not appear that there was any kind of motive at this stage but it is very early in the investigation. There are multiple agencies on scene including the fbi all looking into what happened there. Moviegoers ran for their lives after hearing gunshots. One witness said she saw some of the victims desperately searching for help. We heard people screaming in the theater before they set the alarm. And we didnt neknow what was going on. A lady a few seats down asked if we had a weapon to protect ourselves. I said why. She said there was a shooting. I said how did she know. Her friend was at the door and they wouldnt let her in. She took off running saying i cant deal with this. Im leaving. So i went to see if i could hear or see anything and i could just hear people screaming. So then the alarm went off. We took off running outside. As im running outside, im seeing people bleeding on the leg. Shot. And i was just like, wo
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