May 1864. Robert E. Lee climbs a Virginia mountain and stares across the Rapidan River. He has beaten every Union commander sent against him—McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Meade. Now, a new…
In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee climbed the slopes of Clark’s Mountain and scanned the far bank of the Rapidan River, where the Federal Army sprawled across the Virginia landscape. His Army of Northern Virginia numbered perhaps 64,000 men fit for duty, fewer than at the start of any previous major offensive. Three … Read more