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And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Thanks for tuning into the podcast. As you guys will recall,

we've been talking about different aspects of what history has called the Overland campaign.

It started when, in the spring of 1864 in Virginia, Ulysses-S. Grant had set the several

federal armies there in motion against the Confederates, with the spotlight being on the

contest between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

It continued when Grant refused to follow the example of his of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

It continued when Grant refused to follow the example of his predecessors in the East,

whose campaigns had pretty much consisted of one-and-done attempts to best the rebels,

whether it was Burnside at Fredericksburg or Hooker at Chancellor's Bill or Mead at Mine Run.

But Grant broke the mold. Rather than calling off his offensive after the wilderness or after Spotsylvania or after reaching the North Anna, Grant had instead continued to maneuver the Army of the Potomac

around Lee's right flank, always moving farther to the southeast.

This period of unprecedented, sustained, near-continuous maneuvering and fighting came to be

called the Overland Campaign.

The last time we looked at the maneuvering and fighting between the two armies, it was May 30th,

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