THE OVERLAND CAMPAIGN FOR RICHMOND: Grant vs Lee, 1864

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A detailed and fully illustrated account of the Richmond Campaign, covering the strategies and tactics employed. Discusses ow Lincoln sought a general to put an end to the war, and he found it in Grant. Determined to destroy Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Grant bulked up the Army of the Potomac with the addition of Burnside's IX Corps, swelling the army's numbers to nearly 120,000. On May 3, 1864, the Army of the Potomac headed for the Wilderness to open the Spring Campaign, and the next six weeks saw the most brutal fighting of the entire war. While Grant had failed to destroy Lee's army or capture Richmond, the relentless pressure of the campaign effectively sealed the fate of the Confederacy.