Disunion: Lee’s Lost Order
By early September 1862, having culminated his triumphant Second Manassas campaign with Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s postscript victory at Chantilly, Va. — within an easy commute of present-day Washington — Robert E. Lee was laying plans to win the war.
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