Battle of Fort Stedman
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The Battle of Fort Stedman, also known as the Battle of Hare's Hill, was fought on March 25, 1865, during the final weeks of the American Civil War. The Union Army fortification in the siege lines aro
1865 photograph at Fort Stedman by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
View of the interior of Fort Stedman
Maj. Gen. John G. Parke
Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon
Appomattox campaign
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The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Norther
Battle of Fort Stedman
…of Northern Virginia. One week later the Union Army broke the Confederate lines ending the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign. Immediately following was the Appomattox Campaign and the final surrender of Lee's army on April 9, 1865. Bonekemper, Edward H., III. A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military…
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, opposing commanders in the Appomattox campaign
Major General John B. Gordon
The Peacemakers by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1868, depicts the historic 1865 meeting on the River Queen