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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Screeria nigeria. Thank you. We recently visited virginia for a closing of the Longwood University and courthouse National Historical park. Next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a. 5. He discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of he
But they didnt say exactly where. What happened was, the individual, the commissary sergeant, or whoever was in charge of the supplies in richmond, then sent a message back to the turnbull house, to lees headquarters, asking for more specific instructions. But what had happened as tracy again mentioned, these Union Sixth Army corps that morning had broken through the confederate lines,j basically were pamplin park is if youre familiar with that area, they broke through the union lines and lee was then forced to abandon his headquarters, so when that second message came for where do we send them, nobody was there to receive them. And thats to me and that comes out of the four volume seat of r. E. Lee, its an appendensy in the back of volume number 4. I think knowing that area quite n well, i think thats probably is what happened. Anyone else have a question . Ron has a question. He is making his way to the microphone. I will throw something out for chris here. Its a large campaign. Seve
Supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of hefry artillery. He is also past president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable, Historical Society and his talk today sont fall ofis on the fall of petersburg. So please welcome tracy chenault. Good evening. As most of you know me realize im a big baseball guy. And so when pat asked me to come speak on friday evening a