CSPAN3 Battles Of Monocacy And Fort Stevens July 27, 2014
150 years ago in july of 1864 a Confederate Army of about 12,000 troops nearly invaded washington, d. C. Next historian and journalist takes us on a tour of battlefields in maryland and washington, d. C. To tell the and the battlecy of fort stevens where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. Consider what could have happened with an entire core of troops let loose in washington, d. C. The cap the treasury was there for the looting, the treasury department. They could have burned the capitol. The Navy Department had a ship waiting for him ...