12/24/2007
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Significant Battles in 1864
*May 5-7 - Although the Battle of the
Wilderness was a tactical draw, Ulysses S.
Grant continued his pursuit of Lee.
*May 8-21 - Grant’s and Meade’s advance
on Richmond was stalled by Lee at
Spotsylvania Court House in a
ferocious two-week battle.
*June 3-12 - At Cold Harbor the Union
army losses 7,000 men in the first hour.
*August 2-23 - A combined Union force
led by Adm. David G. Farragut and
Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger defeated Confederate troops at Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines Garrison, and Fort Powell and closed Mobile Bay to blockade running.
*September 2 – Atlanta surrenders to Gen. William T. Sherman.
*December 15-16 - John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee is defeated by Union forces under George H. Thomas at Nashville.
Spotsylvania Court House, VA