The Battle of North Anna was fought May 23–26, 1864, as part of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. It consisted of a series of small actions near the North Anna River in central Virginia, rather than a general engagement between the armies. The individual actions are sometimes separately known as: Telegraph Road Bridge and Jericho Mills ; Ox Ford, Quarles Mill, and Hanover Junction.
Pontoon bridge constructed by Union engineers for crossing the North Anna River
Grant and his staff at Massaponax Church, Virginia, May 21, planning movements to the North Anna
Taylor's Bridge, also known as the Chesterfield Bridge, where the Telegraph Road crosses the North Anna River.
A view of the pontoon bridge across the North Anna from Jericho Mills
The Overland Campaign, also known as Grant's Overland Campaign and the Wilderness Campaign, was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864, towards the end of the American Civil War. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, and other forces against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Although Grant suffered severe losses during the campaign, it was a strategic Union victory. It inflicted proportionately higher losses on Lee's army and maneuvered it into a siege at Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, in just over eight weeks.
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, respectively, opposing commanders in the Overland Campaign
Union staff meeting at Massaponax Baptist Church on May 21, 1864. Grant has his back to the smaller tree with Charles Anderson Dana to his left, while Meade is seated at the far left.
Movement to Totopotomoy, May 25–28, 1864, following the Battle of North Anna
Battle of Totopotomoy Creek, May 30, 1864
