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The Battle of Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864, is one of the smaller battles fought during General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. The battle itself was not terribly significant except for the fact that the great Confederate cavalry commander…

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Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign was the beginning of the end of the war in Virginia. At this point, General Grant had been promoted and commanded all Union armies, but he retained Maj. Gen. George G. Meade as Commander of the Army of…

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Across the Mississippi River in the Trans-Mississippi district (that included states west of the Mississippi River and the Indian Territory), Missouri was an undecided and undeclared state. Men joined and formed regiments; they marched, drilled, and…

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The day after the South’s devastating loss at Gettysburg, the Confederacy suffered another major setback when the key river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant on July 4, 1863, after a 47-day siege. I had not visited…

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The Battle of Stones River, or the Second Battle of Murfreesboro as it was called in the South, was fought on December 31, 1862, through January 2, 1863, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This geographic portion of the war was known as the Western Theater.…

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As General Ulysses S. Grant (shown on the left) progressed in his goal of taking the capital city of the Confederacy, he started north of Richmond and then proceeded east and south in order to encircle the city. Each time he attempted an attack on…
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