Left brain logic: to try to escape the trap and join up with Joe Johnston's army in North Carolina.
Right-brain emotion: a realization that they could never win, but were psychologically incapable of surrendering till they were barefoot and starving.
The general conception of Lee's plan was:
1 - to break through the Union front at Petersburg;
2 - if the endeavor had succeeded, Grant should have been forced to shorten his siege line;
3 - Lee, therefore would have sent an important part of his army to Johnston in the North Carolina;
4 - In case of failure Lee thought he would have been able to abandon Richmond and Petersburg joining Johnston with the whole Army of Northern Virginia.
Lee's plan as it was conceived in details.
- Eastward of Petersburg the Confederate line was leaning towards the Federal ones with a wide salient, called Colquitt, after the name of a general. There, both the opposite entrenchments were divided by no more than 150 meters and the Confederate outposts stood about 50 meters from the enemy line.
The ground beyond the salient was in slight ascent towards the Union strong fortified position called Fort Stedman.
The first stage of the attack foresaw its capture by surprise.
Afterward the Confederate attacking columns would have enlarged the breach, seizing the enemy entrenchments on both sides of the fort and, at the same time, advancing through the opponent main fortified line until reaching its backline.
Such an action could lead to very important developments:
-to compel Grant to evacuate the whole front from Fort Stedman to the Boydton Plank Road, in order to avoid from being cut out from his base of City Point;
- not only, but the said action could even lead to the conquest of this base, which was located only about 15 kilometers behind the Union line near the Appomattox River. It would have meant the paralysis of the enemy's combat organization.
It was a significant strategic formulation, planned many decades ahead on those which would have been developed in Europe after the WW1, to overcome similar strategic problems.
From a military point of view, the plan, even if successful, could hardly led to win the war. But it would surely have had a deep impact on the Union's home front and/or, would have prolonged the war. Maybe it could also convince the belligerents to negotiate a peace of compromise.
Lee's army was still undefeated at the end of the war. However, Grant's use of siege warfare at Petersburg and Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two, eventually leading to Lee's army being surrounded. Rather than fight on, Lee chose to surrender.
Moscow. It was changed from St. Petersburg in 1918
The only hope was to escape the net and head for North Carolina, where he might be able to join forces with Joe Johnston and defeat Sherman. It was a pretty slim hope, at best.
Because after the failed attempt to take Petersburg by assault carried on June 15, 1864 by the XVIII Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the battle became a siege, that gave the start to a trench warfare like that one fought on the EuropeanWestern Front of the WW1. Furthermore because it deprived Lee once for all of his freedom of movement, making him pinned down to Grant's initiative and to a war of attrition that, thanks to the Union's great superiority in terms of men and means, would have led to the collapse of the Confederate Eastern Front.
The task of Sheridan's Valley Campaign was: 1 - Carry through the elimination of Early's II Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, the only Confederate Great Unit which still had freedom of movement to operate against the left (or Northern) side of Union front and reduce the pressure of Grant's Army on the Richmond-Petersburg's sector. 2 - To scorch the earth in order to deprive the Confederates of all agricultural and structural resources in being there. This campaign together Sherman's march to the sea, was part of the Grand Strategy put in motion by grant as General-in-Chief to defeat the Confederacy.
Lee's army was still undefeated at the end of the war. However, Grant's use of siege warfare at Petersburg and Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two, eventually leading to Lee's army being surrounded. Rather than fight on, Lee chose to surrender.
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William Grant Still was born on May 11, 1895.
Lee was stuck in Petersburg, near Richmond, under siege by U.S.Grant. He had been kept on the defensive, and so was not free to conduct any of his famous bold thrusts. However he was costing Grant more casualties than Grant was costing him, although Lee was still the one running out of manpower, since Grant had ended the system of prisoner exchange.
It was Moscow. A former capital of Russia was Saint Petersburg, it was left in 1918. During the WW2 the capital was not changed.
Moscow. It was changed from St. Petersburg in 1918
The only hope was to escape the net and head for North Carolina, where he might be able to join forces with Joe Johnston and defeat Sherman. It was a pretty slim hope, at best.
Igor Stravinsky attended Saint Petersburg State University. It is located in Saint Petersburg, Russia and still stands and is being used today.
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Cary Grant, the actor, died on November 29th 1986.
There is only one Palace and it is located in St. Petersburg
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