Following the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, the Army of the Potomac's morale sinks to its lowest point ever. Burnside, witnessing the wretched state his men are in, tries to rectify the situation by sending his men on another campaign in the midst of winter. However, his men are caught in ...

On April 27, 1863, once his army is ready, Hooker secretly sends out the V, XI, and XII Corps on a march around Lee's left flank, bound for the exposed Confederate rear. For the first 36 hours, Lee is completely unaware of what is happening just across the Rappahannock. At the same time, Hooker i...

Following his failure to take Vicksburg in the final months of 1862. Major General Ulysses S. Grant decides to pivot his Army of the Tennessee to the Mississippi River. Grant hopes that, with his cooperation with Rear Admiral David D. Porter's Mississippi Squadron, he can find a way to bypass the...

Following Porter's running of the Vicksburg Batteries, Grant uses his available boats to cross the river and attack Vicksburg from the south. Alarmed by Grant's move, Pemberton abandons his extensive defenses facing north and pivots his men to face south. Yet, Grant does not incline to attack the...

After crushing Pemberton at the Battles of Champion Hill and Big Black River Bridge, Major General Ulysses S. Grant drives his Army of Tennessee across the Big Black towards the city that has, since the beginning of the war, thwarted every attempt to be captured by the Federals: Vicksburg. Once n...

While Grant rapidly marches upon the Confederate river bastion of Vicksburg. Another Federal Army marches upon its little sister, Port Hudson. Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, a disgraced political general from the Eastern Theater, was sent to Louisiana in December of 1862 to take over command o...

A Short Guide to understand how both the Union and Confederate armies formed, organized, operated, and fought on the battlefield. In this video, we cover each level of the opposing militaries to see how they operate on each level, from the smallest formation that is the company, to the largest fo...