Episodes

The plan to move the biggest army ever assembled in North American is now underway as 120,000 soliders move across the Rapidan River and into the fabled Wilderness.

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant has begun coordinating his forces arrayed around the Confederacy and has placed his trust in Meade and his senior generals to devise the opening moves of the Overland Campaign.

Learn how Americans, immigrants, and foreign nationals become soldiers in the Union Army of the Potomac in 1864.

Newly promoted Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the newly formed United States Army, has decided to place his command in the field with the largest arm of the Union War Machine -- The Army of the Potomac.

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.