Accounts of history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics and battle experiences of the opposing fortes throughout the crucial stages of each campaign. By early 1865 the American Civil War was approaching a crescendo. Richmond was finally within the Union's grasp and Sherman's formidable cavalry force threatened to sever the Confederate capital from the rest of the South. After Ulysses S. Grant won at Five Forks the writing was on the wall and the long Confederate withdrawal west now began. Would Robert E. Lee, the brilliant commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, be able to escape and regroup in time to link up with Johnston's Army of Tennessee? This is the story of the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East; the last fateful clashes between the armies of Lee and Grant. Vivid full-color artwork, revealing bird's-eye views and campaign maps help to chart the frenetic chase that resulted in Lee's eventual surrender as weariness, hunger and the repeated Union attacks brought the once proud Army of Northern Virginia to its knees.

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