well, the union army will have four army corps, four infantry corps and one cavalry corps. union's second corps will be commanded by general hancock. i'm sure you're all familiar with him. one of the best of the union generals. he will not perform well against grant, though, because he's been badly injured. he was shot at gettysburg, had a wound in his thigh. he will spend a lot of the campaigns against lee here in virginia in an ambulance. the union fifth corps will be under a gentleman by the name of warren. general warren is an unusual character, a young man. he had been an engineer, had fathomed the importance of little round top at gettysburg but didn't have a lot of experience commanding troops. he's also something of an odd duck. as a matter of fact, some of his subordinates commented on how he loved to recite limericks and then he would be the only one to laugh at them. i'm sure we all know people like that. that's general warren. general warren also thought a lot of himself, and as you'll see as this campaign unfolds, often thought his plans were better than those

well, the union army will have four army corps, four infantry corps and one cavalry corps. the union's second corps will be led by hancock. i'm sure you're all familiar with him. he will not perform well against grant, though, because he's been badly injured. he was shot at gettysburg, had a wound in his thigh. he will spend a lot of the campaigns against lee here in virginia in an ambulance. the union's fifth corps will be under a gentleman by the name of warren. general warren is an unusual character, a young man. he had been an engineer, had fathomed little round top at gettysburg. he's something of an odd duck. as a matter of fact, some of his cohorts would laugh at him. i'm sure we all know people like that. that's general warren. general warren also thought a lot of himself, and as you'll see at this campaign, often thought his plans were better than those of his superiors. the union's sixth corps will be in the hands of general sedgwick. he will be shot down by a south carolina sharpshooter at the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. the sixth corps will be beheaded by

well, the union army will have four army corps, four infantry corps and one cavalry corps. the union's second corps will be led by hancock. i'm sure you're all familiar with him. he will not perform well against grant, though, because he's been badly injured. he was shot at gettysburg, had a wound in his thigh. he will spend a lot of the campaigns against lee here in virginia in an ambulance. the union's fifth corps will be under a gentleman by the name of warren. general warren is an unusual character, a young man. he had been an engineer, had fathomed little round top at gettysburg. he's something of an odd duck. as a matter of fact, some of his cohorts would laugh at him. i'm sure we all know people like that. that's general warren. general warren also thought a lot of himself, and as you'll see at this campaign, often thought his plans were better than those of his superiors. the union's sixth corps will be in the hands of general sedgwick. he will be shot down by a south carolina sharpshooter at the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. the sixth corps will be beheaded by

smith was to have support on his own right flank by the union cavalry. wilson's command, the cavalry would be fighting mostly dismounted in this battle. it was quite a bit of movement that was required of smith, along with the fog and opposition from confederate skirmishes along the way, it took most of the morning to get smith's command into position. i 1:00 p.m. on december 15, smith's command had completed its last wheel, had rotated to position more or less 90 degrees so that now smith incident facing south as he -- more or less south, we will say schematically south, but instead of facing due south, smith was now facing due east. and was readylank to begin the assault. early in the morning while cavalry had been getting into position and while schofield's 23rd corps on orders from thomas had been shifting behind smith to be ready to come in on smith's right, so even further out on the flank, they are on their way there, they're not there yet. while that was going on, other elements of thomas's army had tried other portions of goods line. steve men's

the cavalry was holding of the union church the confederates were running the last mile or so to get into the entrenchment. >> well, the soldiers in the south, i think, were trying to drive off invaders. the union army was a field as the invading army. and the north, i think there is a real feeling of patriotism and believe, a strong belief in the union, preserving the union. i think those are the two on either side, the main reasons. and then later the union army had to resort to to the draft. they had to pay people to come and. the bounty hunters, they called them. people who came in in order to get the $300 bounty. they would go to the union army and get into a unit and then they would take office as they could and then try to get a bounty. so they had a problem, the northern armies, with desertions . later this southern army, desertion was a tremendous problem. 1865. yes. the confederate army. right. >> both armies, what did they learn the two weeks following the initial assaults. the war effort that would describe the rest of the warm in atlanta and in petersburg. >> i think the