Grant Goes EastGrant Goes East✮Takes on Lee personally✮Battle Plans

✮Attack, Attack, Attack✮He can replace losses✮Lee can’t

✮First Encounter - Wilderness

WildernessWilderness✮Grant Vs. Lee✮Virginia

✮May 6, 1864

✮Forested Area

Last Year’s Last Year’s DeadDead

WildernessWilderness✮Woods catch fire

✮Wounded who cannot move burn alive

✮Casualties✮Union - 17,500✮Confederate - 13,000

Gen. GrantGen. Grant✮Union loses more men

✮But, Grant moves forward

✮CSA can’t replace casualties✮Union can

✮Battle itself - a draw✮Next meeting - Spotsylvania

SpotsylvaniaSpotsylvania✮Tactics

✮Trenches and Rifle Pits

✮Sedgewick✮“Couldn’t hit an elephant at this

distance”✮Killed the next day

SpotsylvaniaSpotsylvania✮May 10, 1864✮Bloody Angle

✮Hand-to-hand fighting

LeeLee✮Goes to the front to rally

the men himself✮Soldiers take reigns of horse

✮Lead Lee to rear

SpotsylvaniaSpotsylvania✮5 days of rain end battle✮Heavy Casualties

✮12,000 fell in one square mile of ground

Cold HarborCold Harbor✮When Rains end Grant pursues

Lee✮June 3, 1864✮Cold Harbor

✮Confederates prepare defenses

Cold HarborCold Harbor✮US Soldiers knew attack was

suicidal✮Pinned names on back of coats

✮7-8,000 Union soldiers fell within 1 hour

Cold HarborCold Harbor✮Lee pushes Grant back

✮Escapes to Petersburg

✮Grant pursues✮Lays siege

CasualtiesCasualties✮Union

✮12,000✮Confederate

✮1,500✮Winner

✮Confederacy (Last one)

““I am killed”I am killed”

Sherman’s MarchSherman’s March✮Plan

✮March eastward to the sea, then northward to meet up with Grant

✮Capture key cities

✮Total Warfare✮Break the people’s will to fight

Total WarfareTotal Warfare

Sherman’s MarchSherman’s March✮Confederate Army tries to

stop Sherman✮Johnston

✮62,000 men

✮Doesn’t work

Gen. Gen. ShermanSherman

MarchMarch✮Sherman’s men cut a path 60

miles wide✮Everything is destroyed (Total

War)✮Factories, R/R lines, mansions,

crops, cities

Sherman’s Sherman’s NecktiesNeckties

ShermanSherman✮Army has no supply lines

✮Foragers

✮Captures Atlanta✮Sept. 2, 1864✮Burns it to the Ground

AtlantaAtlanta

Gen. Gen. ShermanSherman

ShermanSherman✮Savannah, GA is captured

✮Dec. 21, 1864✮Christmas gift to Pres.

Lincoln

✮Heads North to meet Grant✮War Ends while in NC