Ulysses S. Grant would later admit that Cold Harbor was the one battle he “would not fight again.” Many federal soldiers who survived would agree.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant sent feisty General Philip Sheridan to wrest control of the Shenandoah Valley from the Confederates.   More »

With Confederate forces in full retreat, alert Union forces charged through a gap in the Rebel column, capturing 8,000 soldiers at Sayler’s Creek.

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In April 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia tried to escape U.S. Grant’s Federal armies, but found itself trapped at Appomattox Court House.   More »

Louisville’s Galt House Hotel was an unlikely place for a deadly encounter between two guests, particularly when they were fellow Union generals.   More »

In the summer of 1862, Confederate forces mounted an ambitious invasion of Kentucky aimed at freeing the Bluegrass State of Union “occupiers.”   More »

After crossing the North Anna River, Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces headed toward Cold Harbor.   More »

While Union commander Phil Sheridan was in Washington, Confederate soldiers crept over the Massanuteen Mountain to fall on his army at Cedar Creek.   More »

With a bloody stalemate looming in the Virginia woods, a young Union colonel, Emory Upton, suggested a risky new maneuver to break the Rebel line.   More »