In accordance with his nature, Robert E. Lee wanted to make one final assault in what everyone knew to be the last days of the Confederacy. All he hoped to do, he told Jeff Davis, was “delay the impending disaster.” He decided that an assault on Fort Stedman just outside Petersburg, VA might break the [...]
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The Case of the Missing Forts
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