Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hancock kawai ya yi nasara da yaƙin soja a lokacin da aka kewaye Petersburg. Rundunarsa ta II ta koma kudu da birnin, tare da Wilmington da Weldon Railroad, suna rushewa. A ranar 25 ga watan Agusta, Janar Janar Henry Heth ya kai hari kuma ya mamaye matsayin Union a Reams's Station
, ya ragargaza II Corps, ya kama fursunoni da yawa. Duk da nasarar da ya samu a baya a Hatcher's Run, wulakancin Reams's Station ya ba da gudummawa, tare da tasirin rauni na Gettysburg, ga shawarar da ya yanke na barin umurnin filin a watan Nuwamba. Ya bar II Corps bayan shekara guda wanda ya sha wahala sama da asarar rayuka 40,000, amma ya sami nasarorin soja masu yawa. Ayyukansa na gaba shi ne ya jagoranci rundunar sojan soja na farko. Ya yi karin daukar ma'aikata, ya umurci Ma'aikatar Tsakiya, kuma ya sauya Manjo Janar Philip Sheridan a matsayin kwamandan dakarun a cikin kwarin Shenandoah mai zaman lafiya. An ci gaba da shi zuwa babban janar a cikin rundunar soja na yau da kullum don aikinsa a Spotsylvania, mai tasiri a ranar 13 ga Maris, 1865.