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To: Master Zinja

Five Forks - another big loss by Pickett, this time at the hands of General Sheridan.


2 posted on 04/01/2014 5:55:56 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Last big Battle of the Civil War—the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.


3 posted on 04/01/2014 7:43:58 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: circlecity
True but it was only a matter of time until Lee was forced out or had to surrender at Petersburg. Once Grant pinned him to Petersburg it was over if not before.
4 posted on 04/01/2014 7:56:03 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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