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Welcome to episode 494 of our Civil War podcast.

I'm Rich and Tracy won't be with us this week.

She has a bit of a summertime cold, although it hasn't really felt like summer lately here in Colorado.

It's felt more like fall, actually.

Anyway, Tracy has a cold, but we'll soldier on.

As you guys will recall, by the end of the last episode,

we'd wrapped up our discussion of the fight at Haas Shop on May 28, 1864,

which happened after the two armies had left the North Anna, and as both Lee and Grant,

were trying to get a fix on the whereabouts of the enemy. After the clash at Haas shop, both sides had what they needed,

though. From prisoners, Confederate Cavalry General Wade Hampton discovered that the Federal's

5th and 6th Corps had definitely crossed the Pamunkey River, and from rebel prisoners, Phil Sheridan

learned the positions of Anderson's and Yule's Corps. So at 6 p.m. that evening, Robert E. Lee brought

Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon up to date on the situation. His army, he

wrote, was in front of Atle's station on a line extending toward Tadapotomy Creek. He'd heard

nothing to suggest the Yankees had crossed the creek. Instead, he believed that Grant was assembling his army behind it.

Lee passed along the report about the location of the Federal's Fifth and Sixth Corps, adding

cautiously, I have not, however, received very definite information as yet, either as regards

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