Battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. After will list wilderness, you had petersburg surrounded. His idea, his plan was to choke robert e lee and force them to come out and fight what he thought would be the battle that would end the war. We knew this as well. Lee came up with a plan of his own witches he took an entire and he took them outside the defenses of washington on a bold plan, a fourpart plan that he hoped would mess up general grants grand plan to end the war. The first plan with the kick the forces out of the shenandoah valley. Lees biggest problem was supplied, including food and most of the food came from the shenandoah valley. These forces under general hunter had taken over just about the entire shenandoah valley. The second part of the plan was to threaten washington, d. C. The third part of the plan was the free confederate prisoners at the lookout prison camp was which was on the ve
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Civil War battle that was called “the first serious conflict between United States troops and the rebels” will be reenacted Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16.