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Wilderness and Spotsylvania 1864: Grant versus Lee in the East (Campaign)

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Grant and Lee fought near Chancellorsville, VA in a confusing series of battles amidst brush thickets and wildfires. Unlike previous campaigns, Grant simply kept flanking Lee, trying frontal assaults at Spotslvania’s ‘mule-shoe’ and Cold Harbor along the way to laying seige to Richmond and Petersburg.

In May 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade had been in a leisurely pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for almost a year after the defeat of the Rebels at Gettysburg. Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee still retained his awe-inspiring reputation for wrecking Union armies that got too with reference to Richmond and Meade was once still cautious. His tactics at Gettysburg were defensive and he was once unsure that he was once in a position to take the offensive against Lee. Alternatively, things changed when President Abraham Lincoln appointed General Ulysses S. Grant to command all Union armies. Grant came east and laid out a comprehensive strategy for the remainder of the war.

In the deep South, General William T. Sherman would march out of Tennessee to cut the Confederacy in half by taking Atlanta. Grant would lead the Army of the Potomac across the Rapidan River and march on Richmond. He had the manpower and equipment to accomplish his objective, easily outnumbering Lee. Lee, then again, was once far from beaten and saw Grant as just every other Union general to be sent packing, much as he had sent McClellan, Burnside, Pope and Hooker away two years before. As Grant’s army slowly entered the tangle of woods beyond Fredericksburg referred to as the Wilderness, Lee planned to pin him there and destroy him as he struggled to emerge. The stage was once set for the campaign that would endlessly dictate the terms of the Civil War in the East.

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