Resources
Episode Research Links
War Yankee is focusing on American Civil War education. When I use a reference I try to source it here.
“The problem with Civil War history is that all the letters home are going to have a bias. People have axes to grind, people want to make their buddies look good, and make themselves look good. The battle reports are all written from a point of view and, of course, all the reports written after the war read sort of like ‘how I could have won the war if they had let me do it’. All you can do as a historian is get all those accounts together, read through them all, and see if there are some common threads.”
- Gordon Rhea, C-SPAN Interview with Peter Carmichael, June 20, 2014.
Timeline & Maps
- May 4 - June 12, 1864 — The Overland Campaign of 1864
- May 5–7, 1864 — Battle of The Wilderness
- May 8–21 — Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- May 11, 1864 — Battle of Yellow Tavern
- May 23–26, 1864 — Battle of North Anna
- May 24, 1864 — Battle of Wilson’s Wharf
- May 28, 1864 — Battle of Haw’s Shop
- May 28–30, 1864 — Battle of Totopotomoy Creek
- May 30, 1864 — Battle of Old Church
- May 31–June 12, 1864 — Battle of Cold Harbor
- June 9, 1864 — Siege of Petersburg Begins
- June 11-12, 1864 — Battle of Trevilian Station
- June 15, 1864 — Opening of the Petersburg Campaign
- June 15-18, 1864 — Assault on Petersburg
- September 30 - October 2, 1864 — Peebles’ Farm
- March - April 1865 — The Breakthrough
- April 2, 1865 — Siege of Petersburg Ends
- April 9, 1865 — Appomattox Court House
Books
- The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864
- Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864
- A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
- American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Articles
- Fredericksburg Tours
- Battle of Mine Run Campaign
- Wilderness Crossing Trail Guide
- Conservation at the Crossroads: Preserving Siegen Forest at Chancellorsville
- The Wilderness: Grant and Lee Meet at Last
- Grand Movement of the Army of the Potomac—Crossing the Rapidan—Entering the Wilderness—Battle of the Wilderness
- Grant’s Army, Crossing the Rapidan - Then and Now
- Historic Crossings of the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers (Volume 32 #3)
- Diary of a General from the Battle of the Wilderness and Fortifications at Petersburg
- WILDERNESS- SPOTSYLVANIA STAFF RIDE
- “Swearing and Praying” – Medical Care After the Wilderness
- Legends of America - Grant’s Overland Campaign
- Immigrant Regiments March Out of the Wilderness Into a “Wicked Roar” of Gunfire
- The Bag Was Tied: The 146th New York in Saunders Field
