Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign (Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney) - CWC medal And nowhere was the fracture

And nowhere was the fracture more apparent than in the raging debates between Illinois's Stephen Douglas and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis

and the NCR was one of the routes used by his funeral train to travel from Washington to his burial place in Springfield

Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart of Virginia

When the opposing divisions clashed near the small crossroads town of New Market on May 15

began to feel the effects of that continuous

Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign (Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney) - CWC medal And nowhere was the fractureby Gary W. Gallagher (Editor), Caroline E. Janney (Editor) Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland campaigna remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combatand what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although many historians have marked Grants crossing of the James River on