we all know to hate george custer for just being george custer. if you were around the civil war, you would have had two polarizing figures around the civil war. one general sheridan and the other is warren. warren finds himself being a democrat in a republican army. you can only imagine what he and winfield go through being supporters of general

we all know to hate george custer for just being george custer. if you were around the civil war, you would have had two polarizing figures around the civil war. one general sheridan and the other is warren. warren finds himself being a democrat in a republican army. you can only imagine what he and winfield go through being supporters of general mcclellan. not a good place to be in when you're an officer in the army. that being said warren tends to not want to follow orders as grant gives them. warren tends to want to interpret orders to the benefit of his men only do what he thinks is going to preserve his fifth corps. that's not how grant wages warfare and it is certainly not how sheridan wages warfare. sheridan instantly balks knowing that some of these are warren's men. when sheridan is told that he has to use the fifth corps as his support led by general warren, that order is instantly followed up by general grant with if you have any problems with the corps commander relieve him of one of the division commanders which you would say pretty m

we all know to hate george custer for just being george custer. if you were around the civil war, you would have had two polarizing figures around the civil war. one general sheridan and the other is warren. warren finds himself being a democrat in a republican army. you can only imagine what he and winfield go through being supporters of general mcclellan. not a good place to be in when you're an officer in the army. that being said warren tends to not want to follow orders as grant gives them. warren tends to want to interpret orders to the benefit of his men only do what he thinks is going to preserve his fifth corps. that's not how grant wages warfare and it is certainly not how sheridan wages warfare. sheridan instantly balks knowing that some of these are warren's men. when sheridan is told that he has to use the fifth corps as his support led by general warren, that order is instantly followed up by general grant with if you have any problems with the corps commander relieve him of one of the division commanders which you would say pretty m

we know the hate for george custer because of just being george custer. if you are around at the civil war, though, you would have had two polarizing figures at the end of the war. one being philip sheridan, who i mentioned earlier, you either love him or hate him, and you had better love him, or else he will kill you. the other is gouverneur warren. unfortunately, for gouverneur warren, he finds himself being a democrat in a republican army, and you can only imagine what he and winfield scott hancock go through in election year when a republican wins. not a good place to be as an officer in the army, especially when your commanding officer unfortunately, for gouverneur warren, he finds himself being a democrat in a republican army, and you can only imagine what he general grant, is a republican. that being said, warren tends to not want to follow orders as grant gives them. he wants to interpret orders and to the benefit of his men, only do what he thinks is going to preserve his fifth corps. that is not how grant wages warfare, and certainly not how she

and this young fella here, if you don't recognize him, is george armstrong custer in his west point class photo. is that's how he looks in 1861. now, last night, chris was asked to touch on a little bit. there was some devious means in this campaign. they have men known as jesse scouts or during the campaign, they're known as major henry young scouts. these are federal soldiers that have either maybe some of them v been in the south and infiltrate during the confederate army during the long road and trying to delay them. they actually capture confederate general rufus rufus beringer by riding up to him. when they're hailed riding up to them, they claim they're members of the ninth calvary. they'll pull out their revolvers take rufus as prisoner and ride away with him. now, over around aplamatics on april 8th there's a sergeant with this group of scouts named sergeant white dressed in confederate uniform. sergeant white doesn't give anything away. yes, general lee is in desperate need of those supplies. but then sergeant white rides back to his commander and they go to phil sheridan and ph

he had with him some folks you probably recognize, george armstrong custer thomas devon and george cook many of these would become fighters in the indian wars afterwards. as mentioned earlier they are facing confederate general richard anderson, george picket and bushrod johnson. that fighting at that intersection which is just beyond our visitor's center is known as marshall's cross roads or harper's farm. here the union cavalry would attack at the same time that the fighting was going on down at the hillsman house along the creek, now at the fighting at the creek the confederates did not have artillery with which to reply to the union bombardment of artillery of 20 guns set up in the yard of the hillsman house. here at this fighting at the cross roads both confederate and union forces did have artillery with which to use. well a lot of the union cavalry had lost their horses in that they road directly from the shennen doughshen n shennen doa valley and they didn't have a chance to remount cht a lot of them were using mules to ride on. one of them, sergeant cunnington of the first west

similarly vanquishing two of sheridan's cavalry divisions before the last of his troops under george armstrong custer stabilized the tactical situation. picket then withdrew to the vital crossroads at five forks where on april 1st, they outnumbered the confederates. but the real day of the decision at petersburg came on april 2nd. the day began with a series of assaults, most of which lee's men repulsed, but the one six miles southwest of the city managed to break through the confederate lines. under these dire circumstances, lee did not panic, and his coolness, moral authority and advanced planning would not only hold petersburg for the rest of the day but set the stage for the successful escape of all the confederate troops between richmond and petersburg that night. don't let anybody tell you that petersburg was a siege. it was not a siege, obviously it was not a siege because lee got out on the 292nd day of the campaign. upon learning of the defeated five forks, lee called for charles fields' first corps division to come south and shore up lee's right. after learning of the break in his lines, he

similarly vanquishing two of sheridan's cavalry divisions before the last of his troops under george armstrong custer stabilized the tactical situation. picket then withdrew to the vital crossroads at five forks where on april 1st, they outnumbered the confederates. but the real day of the decision at petersburg came on april 2nd. the day began with a series of assaults, most of which lee's men repulsed, but the one six miles southwest of the city managed to break through the confederate lines. under these dire circumstances, lee did not panic, and his coolness, moral authority and advanced planning would not only hold petersburg for the rest of the day but set the stage for the successful escape of all the confederate troops between richmond and petersburg that night. don't let anybody tell you that petersburg was a siege. it was not a siege, obviously it was not a siege because lee got out on the 292nd day of the campaign. upon learning of the defeated five forks, lee called for charles fields' first corps division to come south and shore up lee's right. after learning of the break in his lines, he