The Overland Campaign: The Civil War in Four Minutes

Join Historian Dave Richards as he discusses the complexities of Grant's Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, from the Battle of the Wilderness to the Battle of Saint Mary's Church. This video is part of the American Battlefield Trust's In4 video series, which presents short videos on basic Civil War topics.

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The North could replace their loses, the south could not.

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Did anybody really win the battle of Spotsylvania not talking about the campaign just the battle

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How was Grant able to protect his own supply line with all this flanking?

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See the video ....The war for the rail lines 1864

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Had +50,000 guarding his supply lines

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L + Ratio

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River boats helped alot

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I'm sorry he sounds like he's reading a hostage's cue card.

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it sounds like he's... reading a script, without having taken any acting classes because he's a historian.