[AU72]

I read that Lincoln went up to the fort and when he stuck his head up he was told to get your fool head down, not knowing it was the President.

[RedStateRocker]

Too little too late.

D.C., regardless of who’s in power, as always been adept at protecting itself and its inhabitants.

By 1964 it was pretty heavily defended; by war’s end there were about 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries and miles of military roads.

[2banana]

If Early had attacked early in the morning the first day he would have had a decent chance of success

But Early was late...

[sphinx]

When Jubal Early brushed aside the scratch Union force on the Monocacy, Washington was virtually an open city, Grant having stripped the once formidable garrison to make good his losses in the Overland Campaign. As Early began to march south from Frederick, the Federals issued rifles to Treasury clerks and converted them into an instant militia. They also went through the military hospitals, pressing the walking wounded into service.

More usefully, a telegram was sent to Grant down at City Point asking for troops asap. As good fortune would have it, VI Corps had just arrived back at City Point from its expedition down to the Carolinas; the baggage and artillery, and many of the men, were still on the transports. They sailed as soon as the ships could get up steam. Had they not been present, Grant would have had to pull troops out of the Petersburg lines, assemble shipping and embark the force, which would have taken some time.

Fortunately, the confederates had a long, hot march down from Frederick. When they reached Montgomery Blair's mansion in Silver Spring late in the afternoon, they were naturally inclined to requisition his wine cellar and pause for the evening. The VI Corps troops landed at the 6th Street docks (on the now newly rebuilt Southwest Waterfront) the next morning and quickstepped across town. They were filing into the entrenchments on the northwest quadrant of town, covering the roads down from Frederick, as Early's skirmishers began to probe the lines.

There is a very small federal cemetery on Georgia Avenue between Van Buren and Whittier. The men buried here were casualties of a Union sortie from the lines around Fort Stevens that was sent out to drive back some confederate skirmishers who had crept in close enough to be a nuisance. It was not much of a skirmish as the confederates fell back quickly, but there was still a price to be paid. Early never mounted an attack.

[Vaquero]

Jubal Early., Firefly,. Objects In Space. (Total non-sequitur).

[Bonemaker]

I know how the movie ends and don’t want to be reminded of it thank you very much.

[YogicCowboy]

Firefly: Objects in Space. Jubal Early was the bounty hunter.

Given the frontier ambience of the show, I am sure this was not accidental.