Grant has Lee pinned down by mid-June…
June 1864 CE
Grant has Lee pinned down by mid-June in fortifications before Petersburg, Virginia, an important rail center twenty-three miles below Richmond.
On June 15, Grant makes a vain assault on Petersburg with 63,797 troops.
Total Union casualties are 11,386 troops, numbering 1,688 killed, 8,513 wounded, and 1,185 missing.
Confederate losses are not known.