1864 May

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2                    r1.75	3                r1.75	4	5	6	7
8	9	10                 r1.73	11                r1.68	12	13	14                r1.68
15                r1.66	16                r1.7	17	18                r1.75	19	20	21
22               r1.8	23	24	25                r1.79	26	27         r1.79-1.80	28
29	30	31
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May 4-5, 1864- Battle of the Wilderness, Virgina. the opening battle of the "Overland Campaign" or "Wilderness Campaign". General Ulysses S. Grant,
accompanying the Army of the Potomac under General Meade, issued orders for the campaign to begin on May 3. Lee responded by attacking the Union
column in the dense woods and underbrush of an area known as the Wilderness, west of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

May 7, 1864- Beginning of the Atlanta Campaign. With three Union armies under his command, General William T. Sherman marched south from Tennessee
into Georgia against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph Johnston, the objective being the city of Atlanta.

May 8-21, 1864-  Battle of Spotsylvania. Lee successfully stalls Grant's drive toward Richmond.

May 11, 1864- Battle of Yellow Tavern. Six miles north of Richmond, Confederate cavalry under General J.E.B. Stuart blocked a force of Union cavalry under
General Philip Sheridan. General Stuart was mortally wounded during the encounter.

May 14-15, 1864- Battle of Resaca, Georgia. General Sherman's armies are blocked at Resaca by General Johnston's Army of Tennessee. After two days
of maneuvering and intense fighting, Johnston withdraws. Sherman will advance but take precautions against ordering any further massed assaults where high casualties may occur.