The Appomattox Campaign:  By Chris M. Calkins

“It will become the final siege and then it will be a mere question of time”  Such were the words of Robert E. Lee  in June 1864, as he prophesied about what was to be the final year of conflict in Virginia.  After being pinned down for nine and a half months with his army protecting both Richmond and Petersburg, he had only two major supply lines left to fuel continued resistance.

With the spring of 1865, the men in the trenches surrounding these two Confederate strongholds knew the final campaign was about to begin.