October 16 & 17, 2010, Charleston Civic Center

The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg

Saturday, October 16, 11:30 a.m., WV 105

Robert E. Lee faced the most monumental crisis of his military career on the morning of April 2, 1865. By sunrise that morning, the Union 6th Corps had punched a huge hole in Lee's outer line, southwest of Petersburg, Va. He needed time for reinforcements to arrive from Richmond, but how could his depleted army buy that time? Amidst overwhelming odds, this suicide mission fell to a handful of Confederates who made a desperate last stand at Fort Gregg.

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