The Armies Move from The Wilderness to Spotsylvania | Overland 160 

The back drop of the crossroads shows there are opportunities to save our historic sites.

Love your channel - Spotsylvania Court House is my favorite battlefield to visit - probably because it's so pristine and the trenches still exist. Thanks for all that you do!

Love the three quotes at the end! I'm not sure you folks know how good you are. That's OUR job to keep telling you.

Loving this Overland 160 series. Learning a lot....y'all are an incredible wealth of information. Great job, guys.

Clicked faster than the Union XI Corps running from Jackson.

Love you guys! It's one of the interesting parts of our county! Be sure to stop in at the CH for some good food at the Snack Shack

Great stuff! Really appreciate the videos. Looking forward to visiting Cold Harbor for the 160th.

Overland 160 enjoyable informative series Trust team !

I learn alot from your video's,you all have a great knowledgeable team,Gary u look good in the hat and beard u look like a civil war leader!! thanks for your dedication everyone involved!!!

Great, great, great. Super job by all. 👌👌

Great series thank you for putting these out

Thank you for your labors!

I'd just like to say that you guys and gal are doing a tremendous job. I've never been to the battlefields in that part of Virginia, but these videos are making me want to go visit.

Love these videos, they are very informative 😎👍

I hope you guys come to Bentonville 160th next year. Live close by the battlefield and would make me happy to see you guys/girls and shake your hand :)

General Ulysses Grant was a great General & a great team player.

Hoping for a road trip in June to see some of these sites.

Really enjoyed this. Thanks

I think that Grant considered battles as events that occurred during his campaign rather than the resolution of the campaign. He was going to the James and whatever happened along the way happened.

After the savagery experienced at the Wilderness, it is surprising that any soldier would cheer the prospect of more bloody fighting.

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I think when Lee realized Grant was heading south on Brock Road, it was his “oh (expletive)” moment. I agree with EP Alexander, this could have been the turning point in the war. He had to me even more concerned when he was pursued after Spotsylvania. Had to know it was the beginning of the end.

Can I metal detect on Trust land if done responsibly?.

Nice little "Hazzah" there at the end, Garry ;)

The series is very effective in helping me to appreciate the Overland Campaign. I’m thinking Kris White is not making friends among AP Hill fans.

3:30 regarding the decision by Grant to march South at the intersection of Brock and Orange Plank Roads in the face of a stalemate; Allow me to quote the immortal prose of Bruce Catton, who said it best: "This Army had known dramatic moments or inspiration in the past---massed flags and many bugles and broad blue ranks spread out in the sunlight, with leadership bearing a drawn sword and riding a prancing horse, and it had been grand and stirring. Now there was nothing more than a bent shadow in the night, a stoop-shouldered man who was saying nothing to anyone, methodically making his way to the head of the column---and all of a moment the tired column came alive, and a wild cheer broke the night, and men shouted and threw their caps in the darkness. They had had their fill of desperate fighting, and this pitiless little man was leading them into nothing except more fighting, and probably there would be no end to it, but at least he was not leading them back in sullen acceptance of defeat, and somewhere, many miles ahead, there would be victory for those who lived to see it. So there was tremendous cheering, and Grant's big horse Cincinnati caught the excitement and reared and pranced, and as he got him under control Grant told his staff to have the men stop cheering because the Rebels weren't too far away and they would hear and know that a movement was being made." Bruce Catton, "A Stillness at Appomattox" p. 92 That should inspire you to pick up a Civil War book and read! Well done American Battlefield Trust. Thanks for keeping history alive.

I think Grant was right, Lee had gotten into every Generals head.

Don't tell me what Bobby Lee might do, tell me what you are going to!

Garys got the microphone,,, what's this all about,,I wonder??????

Was there really cheering by the Federals as they were marching South?

I suspect Grant wanted as much attrition in the open as he could get because Richmond meant fortification, siege, working around the back side to cut supplies. It ended up being a war of attrition and lines that were too long, running out of men and not being able to protect supply lines 9-12 months later. Grant had a timeline and better roads after winter meant heading south toward Richmond and whatever gets in their way. Union war production was at its peak and they were in the process of isolating what was left of the Confederates, I think a Richmond siege was inevitable by the Wilderness and Atlanta campaigns.

Huzzah indeed

If the reports say 11,000, then it's 11,000. How would you estimate 14,000?

All this slobbering over Grant gets on my nerves....lol Just kidding guys(well, sort of lol) But great job as always!

Wouldn't it have made more strategically sense, for Lee to just head north after the Wilderness? "And not pursue Grant."

I'm not sure what Kris meant by "Chancellorsville, they lost Jackson and came close to victory"? Chancellorsville WAS a Confederate victory, and a fairly lopsided one at that. :)

you all need a new campaign,,Garrys got to GO !!!

I’m going to go out on a ledge here and say this wasn’t recorded today. Why do I say that you ask? Because Todd’s Tavern is a hour drive north for me and it’s 88 here today…. Jackets and gloves not needed

About time the Union used its man and firepower and turned it into a war of attrition!