phil sheridan, nobody knows where phil sheridan is. s galavanting into camp, he's irate because we had the gall to order his own troopers around. imagine that. >> and the two get into an explosive argument. two have the incredible volcanic tempers, and immediate is the one who dials it back, it's an active insubordination on sheridan's part. and so meade goes to grant and says, can you believe this guy? here's what just happened. he had the gal to say, if you give me the orders, i'll go out and get stewart myself. grant, instead of backing his army commander backs his pet, phil sheridan. he generally knows what he's talking about, cut the orders and let him do it. oh, okay. so somewhat fwlaber gasted meade cuts the orders and let's sheridan ride off. leaving the army of the potomac blind and deaf. and i want to call on that very important fact to your attention. because what unfolds over the next 2 1/2 weeks, thousands of union lives are lost because phil sheridan has left with the eyes and ears. he tends to get a free pass in history,

unfortunately for phil sheridan, who is shaking like a leaf, he wants to get going. unfortunately, it is not cooperating. he will at least maneuver further into position. in doing so, warren will have one of his divisions left exposed. this is what i hope everyone takes away from the petersburg campaign is the confederates never stay behind the fortification. they never just sit there and wait for the next assault and abandon the supply line. what does robert e. lee and the fortifications run richmond of 1852, what is his intention? a springboard. a springboard to attack. a last-ditch, but the idea is to move forward from this earth works. he was going to make a slight rearrangement. striking at the flank. doing so quite successfully, sam crawford tries but they are repulsed. he is looking for an reinforcements to push a confederates are completely off their position on the board and plank road. as former virginia governor, sending them back running for the trenches. now, this right here represents that he goes of joshua lawrence chamberlain as single-handedly manage

the only commanders who were not warren were ulysses and phil sheridan. these are the men who removed him and destroyed his reputation. warren had openly criticized both of them. tacticsr his bludgeon and sheridan for these negligence and misuse of calvary opening stages of the campaign. yet grant kept warren in corps end.nd until the he did try to have him removed in february of 1865 to go into the shenandoah valley after crook had a bad experience with confederates. warren was kept with the army. so being unable to move him, rid of himed to get by other means. warren's board of inquiry, both as general and chief of the army and as chief as president of the united states. winfield scott hancock. hancock is superb. do we know that? because it's in every book we ever read that mentions hancock. he's a brigade general on the peninsula, as a corps commander only about 40 days experience as a corps commander. he didn't act in the capacity of commander at gettysburg. veers --unded, severely and removed from command. replace him was warren. why would he do that?

picket and lee were able to push across chamberlai÷úchamberlain'm phil sheridan is quite embarrassed.worst day of american se]u&1 war. and he's not too happy about that. he needs to get his revenge on that ticket and he tells grant÷ that if -- excuse me, if i am cut off from the rest of the federal, then surely picket is cut offym for the rest of his a no man of this man should ever be allowed to returnv: to it. he ha no choice to fallym back the famous position was the there on their left flank. ursuit. warren is finally in positionç: assist. warren that the angle here in the confederate flying located further to the east. and so ÷úwarren, using that fauy recognizant is going to move into position to strike the angle head÷ú on. meanwhile all day long still sheridan calgary is pending the his name is located right now. $oit's been a good hall recentl of the local chad population and fished out of the rivers. and he gave himselfç a fish fr. and rumors of having a few barbecues and fish fries oí: my own here, i can choose to except these rumors, no virginia celebration, no bountiful