1862 - Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart began his ride around the Army of the Potomac. Robert E. Lee had sent him on a reconnaissance of Union positions. Stuart circled the entire Union force and arrived back in Richmond on June 15.
1864 - General Grant's forces pulled out of Cold Harbor. The next day they began moving toward Petersburg, Virginia.
1864 - Near Trevilian Station General Phillip Sheridan's Union cavalry withdrew while tearing up about five miles of rail line. The previous day Sheridan had come to the rescue of General George Custer. Custer had attacked General Wade Hampton's supply train.
1864 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee dispatched Jubal Early to Lynchburg, Virginia, to hold off a Union attack.
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." - Abolitionist John Brown at his execution on December 2, 1859.
