Hello, everyone. Its the summer of 1864. Grant lee have fought the overland campaign and fought now theyre down outside of petersburg. Grant wants no part of attacking the fortifications at petersburg. But hes trying to do now is hes going to try to stretchily out or pull him out of the fordification so he can fight him or take petersburg itself. Grant has developed an interesting strategy in a strategy is that hes going to send part of his Army North of the James River at a place called deep bottom. And threaten richmond possibly even take it. By threatening Richmond Lee will be forced to react. And will weaken his defenses at Petersburg And Grant can break through. So end of july he tries this and he sends a core over at first deep bottom call a battle of first deep bottom they attack and its unsuccessful. And if petersburg, they attack and of course, its the disaster at the crater. But grant is not deterred. Hes could try it again in august. So in the middle of august, he sends anot
Harrison. So with out further ado, id like to introduce my colleague doug crenshaw. Hello, everyone. Its the summer of 1864. Grant lee have fought the overland campaign and fought now theyre down outside of petersburg. Grant wants no part of attacking the fortifications at petersburg. But hes trying to do now is hes going to try to stretchily out or pull him out of the fordification so he can fight him or take petersburg itself. Grant has developed an interesting strategy in a strategy is that hes going to send part of his Army North of the James River at a place called deep bottom. And threaten richmond possibly even take it. By threatening Richmond Lee will be forced to react. And will weaken his defenses at Petersburg And Grant can break through. So end of july he tries this and he sends a core over at first deep bottom call a battle of first deep bottom they attack and its unsuccessful. And if petersburg, they attack and of course, its the disaster at the crater. But grant is not d
The fortifications at petersburg. But hes trying to do now is hes going to try to stretchily out or pull him out of the fordification so he can fight him or take petersburg itself. Grant has developed an interesting strategy in a strategy is that hes going to send part of his Army North of the James River at a place called deep bottom. And threaten richmond possibly even take it. By threatening Richmond Lee will be forced to react. And will weaken his defenses at Petersburg And Grant can break through. So end of july he tries this and he sends a core over at first deep bottom call a battle of first deep bottom they attack and its unsuccessful. And if petersburg, they attack and of course, its the disaster at the crater. But grant is not deterred. Hes could try it again in august. So in the middle of august, he sends another group over at deep bottom and they fight the second battle of deep bottom. And its no more successful. So in september a grants trying to figure out what to do next
Doug crenshaw. Hello, everyone. Its the summer of 1864. Grant lee have fought the overland campaign and fought now theyre down outside of petersburg. Grant wants no part of attacking the fortifications at petersburg. But hes trying to do now is hes going to try to stretchily out or pull him out of the fordification so he can fight him or take petersburg itself. Grant has developed an interesting strategy in a strategy is that hes going to send part of his Army North of the James River at a place called deep bottom. And threaten richmond possibly even take it. By threatening Richmond Lee will be forced to react. And will weaken his defenses at Petersburg And Grant can break through. So end of july he tries this and he sends a core over at first deep bottom call a battle of first deep bottom they attack and its unsuccessful. And if petersburg, they attack and of course, its the disaster at the crater. But grant is not deterred. Hes could try it again in august. So in the middle of august