HISTORYtalks: The capital can't be taken!: The Civil War Defenses of Washington by Steve T. Phan
Mon, Nov 15
|Online Event


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Nov 15, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
Online Event
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Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: The capital can't be taken!: The Civil War Defenses of Washington by Steve T. Phan. Cost is $5 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.
Synopsis:
Fortress Washington was under siege. Three years of extensive construction, expansion, and training—all at the expenditure of exorbitant resources—had come down to a race. The Confederate Army of the Valley District, commanded by Lt. Gen. Jubal Early, advanced south along the Rockville-Georgetown Pike on the morning of 10 July 1864. The day was hot and humid, and dust covered the road as the exhausted rebel force aimed to complete their campaign by seizing the Federal capital. General Robert E. Lee’s “Bald Old Man” was running out of time. The previous day, Early’s infantry and cavalry columns unexpectedly ran into heavy…
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