March 28, 1865
The final tweaks to Grant’s plan for the Ninth Offensive are made, and final orders are issued for the campaign which would finally take Richmond and Petersburg.
Federal expedition from Deep Bottom, VA, with the assistance of transports, ferries, and gunboats, to near Weldon, NC, where the Yankees meet little resistance, and with minor skirmishes, capturing some prisoners and Confederate supplies, cotton, etc. 3/28-4/11/1865.
Grant, Lincoln, Sherman, and Porter meet for a second day aboard the River Queen, docked in the James River near Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia.
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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:
- 150 Years Ago Today: Planning Grant’s Ninth Offensive Against Petersburg and Richmond: March 24-28, 1865
- CLARK NC: 3rd North Carolina Cavalry at the Siege of Petersburg
- CLARK NC: 26th North Carolina at the Siege of Petersburg
- LT: March 28, 1865 Justus G. Matteson (10th New York Cavalry)
- LT: March 28, 1865 Theodore Lyman
- LT: March 29, 1865 Theodore Lyman
- MAP: 9th Offensive Against Petersburg, Meade’s Tweak: March 28, 1865
- MAP: Map of the Battlefield of Five Forks, VA. April 1st 1865 and of Field of Operation Preliminary to It Showing the Operations of the Fifth Army Corps Commanded by Maj. Gen. G. K. Warren (Chamberlain, Passing of the Armies)
- MOLLUS WI V1: Assault on the Lines of Petersburg, April 2, 1865 by Charles H. Anson
- NP: April 3, 1865 Richmond Examiner: Latest News from the North, Sherman and Sheridan, March 25-28, 1865
- NP: April 3, 1865 Richmond Examiner: Operations on the Southside, March 28-31, 1865
- NP: April 15, 1865 Columbus Sun: In the Trenches Near Petersburg
- NP: December 6, 1945 Baldwinsville NY Messenger: 185th New York at Petersburg, Part 5
- OR XLVI P1 #1: Report of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding U.S. Army, March 1864-May, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #4: Itineraries of the Army of the Potomac, Sheridan’s Cavalry Command, and the Army of the James, January-April 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #6: Report of Surg. Thomas A. McParlin, Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, Jan 1-Jun 30, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #7: Report of Surg. John A. Lidell, Inspector of Medical and Hospital Dept, Army of the Potomac, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #8: Report of Surg. George B. Parker, in charge of Depot Field Hospital, March 27-June 30, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #17: Report of Lieutenant Charles B. Phillips, U. S. Corps of Engineers, IX/AOTP, March 28-April 4, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #21: Reports of Major General Andrew A. Humphreys, commanding II/AotP, March 29-April 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #23: Reports of Asst. Surg. Charles Smart, Medical Inspector, II/AotP, Mar 1-Apr 30, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #24: Report of Captain John G. Pelton, 14th CT, Chief of Ambulances, II/AotP, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #27: Report of Captain Lucius H. Ives, 26th MI, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #28: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Welcome A. Crafts, 5th NH, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #35: Report of Lieutenant Colonel James J. Smith, 69th NY, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #36: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Denis F. Burke, 88th NY, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #37: Report of Major Seward F. Gould, 4th NYHA, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #59: Report of Captain J. Frank Morgan, 14th CT, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #60: Report of Major John T. Dent, 1st DE, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #74: Reports of Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding V/AotP, Mar 29-Apr 1, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #77: Report of Bvt. Major General Charles Griffin, commanding 1/V/AotP, Mar 29-Apr 1, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #200: Report of Bvt. Major General Wesley Merritt, commanding Cav/AotS, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #205: Report of Major James Bliss, 8th NY Cav, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #207: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Hall, 1st VT Cav, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #213: Report of Major General Edward O. C. Ord, commanding Army of the James, Mar 29-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #219: Report of Major General John Gibbon, commanding XXIV/AotJ, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #221: Reports of Brigadier General Robert S. Foster, commanding 1/XXIV/AotJ, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #222: Report of Colonel Thomas O. Osborn, 39th IL, commanding 1/1/XXIV/AotJ, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #223: Report of Captain Homer A. Plympton, 39th IL, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #225: Report of Colonel James C. Briscoe, 199th PA, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #226: Report of Colonel George B. Dandy, 100th NY, commanding 3/1/XXIV/AotJ, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #229: Report of Captain Edwin Nichols, 100th NY, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #231: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Edward A. True, 8th ME, Mar 27-Apr 6, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #234: Report of Colonel John B. Murray, 148th NY, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #245: Report of Captain George T. Anthony, 17th NY Btty, Mar 26-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #247: Report of Lieutenant Charles P. Muhlenberg, Btty A 1st US Arty, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #251: Report of Lieutenant Dilwyn V. Purington, 7th USCT, AAQM/2/XXV/AotJ, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #255: Report of Colonel Samuel C. Armstrong, 8th USCT, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #256: Report of Colonel Llewellyn F. Haskell, 41st USCT, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #259: Report of Colonel William W. Woodward, 116th USCT, commanding 3/2/XXV/AotJ, Mar 27-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #260: Report of Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie, commanding Cav/AotJ, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #261: Report of Colonel Robert M. West, 5th PA Cav, 1/Cav/AotJ, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #262: Report of Major J. Stannard Baker, 1st DC Cav, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #263: Report of Colonel Andrew W. Evans, 1st MD Cav (US), Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #264: Report of Lieutenant Col Franklin A. Stratton, 11th PA Cav, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #274: Report of Brigadier General William H. Wallace, commanding Wallace/Johnson/Fourth/ANV, Mar 28-Apr 8, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #277: Report of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, commanding Cav/ANV, Mar 28-Apr 9, 1865
- OR XLVI P1 #76: Report of Asst. Surg. Charles K. Winne, Medical Inspector, V/AotP, Mar 26-Apr 9, 1865
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