Across the bloody killing fields of
Cold Harbor, beyond the broad
expanse of the James River, the Civil
War's Eastern Theater ground to a
stalemate around the Colonial city of
Petersburg. U.S. Grant and Robert
E. Lee conducted a months-long
muddy face-off in the trenches and
introduced a more modern, grim form
of warfare.
This trip encompasses compelling
sites such as Cold Harbor, Grant's
impressive crossing of the James
River, City Point (pictured right), the
Union's huge supply depot that
became one of the world's busiest
ports, and the Crater -- scene of a
uniquely disastrous assault undone
by bureaucratic intransigence and
battlefield chaos.
We'll also visit relatively unknown yet
vital battlefields such as Globe
Tavern and Ream's Station.
Together, they tell the largely
obscure story of 1864's summer and
autumn in eastern Virginia, when the
end of the war truly begins.
Cold Harbor, beyond the broad
expanse of the James River, the Civil
War's Eastern Theater ground to a
stalemate around the Colonial city of
Petersburg. U.S. Grant and Robert
E. Lee conducted a months-long
muddy face-off in the trenches and
introduced a more modern, grim form
of warfare.
This trip encompasses compelling
sites such as Cold Harbor, Grant's
impressive crossing of the James
River, City Point (pictured right), the
Union's huge supply depot that
became one of the world's busiest
ports, and the Crater -- scene of a
uniquely disastrous assault undone
by bureaucratic intransigence and
battlefield chaos.
We'll also visit relatively unknown yet
vital battlefields such as Globe
Tavern and Ream's Station.
Together, they tell the largely
obscure story of 1864's summer and
autumn in eastern Virginia, when the
end of the war truly begins.
Petersburg 1864
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