1865 Encirclement Campaign
The 1865 Encirclement Campaign, also known as the Encirclement Campaign of 1865 and the Seaboard-Carolinas Campaign, was a major Royalist military operation intended to encircle and surround the Republican Armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee and the Archadian Expeditionary Armies. The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign had dislodged Blackwell from the strategic town of Petersburg, but in the wrong direction towards Maryland by the intervention of the Archadian Eastern Expeditionary Army. From the Western Theater, Saunders' March to the Sea managed to inflict logistical damages in the Deep South, but successful blockades by the Army of Tennessee bolstered by Archadian Southern Expeditionary Army prevented his army from reaching Savannah in South Carolina. Royalist field army commanders met at Washington-at-Columbia on 10 August 1865 to discuss their plans, and eventually consented to an all-out encirclement to entrap all Republican armies within lands covering Virginia, the eastern coastline and the Carolinas.