“This is all my fault,” he said, and the men around him had never seen him so broken. I watched him ride past, hat in hand, and the silence was worse than any cannon fire I’d heard over those…
When General Robert E. Lee returned to the South after the Battle of Gettysburg, he expected anger and embarrassment, but he faced an even more disturbing surprise. Two years after the outbreak of hostilities between the Northern and Southern states, which led to the American Civil War, the conflict was not going well for the … Read more