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Overland 03: Center of the Storm
The promotion of Ulysses S. Grant to Commander of the US Army as a Lieutenant General -- a rank only held in wartime by George Washington -- is the shake-up Lincoln hopes will end the war.
The promotion of Ulysses S. Grant to Commander of the US Army as a Lieutenant General -- a rank only held in wartime by George Washington -- is the shake-up Lincoln hopes will end the war.
The stage for the Overland Campaign opens with an understanding of the stakes President Abraham Lincoln is facing going into 1864 -- both election year and the fourth year of the Civil War.
Introducing War Yankee - Overland, my American Civil War history podcast that follows General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac on its 47-day, 113-mile military campaign south from Culpeper to Petersburg, Virginia.