Union campaigns of 1864

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The Union campaigns of 1864 were a coordinated series of major offensives, led primarily by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, aimed at crippling the Confederacy’s military capacity and will to fight during the final phase of the American Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Union military operation
military campaign
contributesTo Union victory in the American Civil War
collapse of the Confederacy
follows Union campaigns of 1863
hasBattle Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Cedar Creek
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Mansfield
Battle of Mobile Bay
Battle of Nashville
Battle of New Market
Battle of Pleasant Hill
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of the Crater
Battle of the Wilderness
Third Battle of Winchester
hasCommander Benjamin Butler
linked to: Benjamin F. Butler

David G. Farragut
Franz Sigel
George G. Meade
George H. Thomas
John M. Schofield
linked to: John Schofield

Nathaniel P. Banks
Philip H. Sheridan
linked to: Philip Sheridan

Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
hasComponent Atlanta Campaign
Franklin–Nashville Campaign
linked to: Nashville Campaign

Mobile Bay Campaign
Operations against Richmond
Operations in the Gulf of Mexico
Operations in the Shenandoah Valley
Overland Campaign
Red River Campaign
linked to: Red River campaign

Richmond–Petersburg Campaign
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Valley Campaigns of 1864
hasObjective capture key Confederate cities
cripple Confederacy’s military capacity
destroy Confederate field armies
sever Confederate supply lines
undermine Confederacy’s will to fight
hasOpposingCommander Braxton Bragg
John Bell Hood
John C. Breckinridge
Joseph E. Johnston
Jubal A. Early
Kirby Smith
P. G. T. Beauregard
Richard H. Anderson
Robert E. Lee
hasParticipant Confederate States of America
United States (Union)
hasPoliticalContext United States presidential election of 1864
hasResult Union capture of Atlanta
linked to: Siege of Atlanta

Union control of Mobile Bay
linked to: Mobile Bay, Alabama

Union dominance in the Shenandoah Valley
decisive weakening of Confederate military power
severe attrition of Army of Northern Virginia
hasStrategicLeader Ulysses S. Grant
hasTheaterCommander William Tecumseh Sherman
location Eastern Theater of the American Civil War
Gulf of Mexico
Trans-Mississippi Theater
Western Theater of the American Civil War
partOf American Civil War
precedes Union campaigns of 1865
temporalLocation 1864

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March to the Sea partOf Union campaigns of 1864
Second Battle of Ream’s Station historicalPeriod American Civil War, 1864 campaigns
linked to: Union campaigns of 1864