Maverica wrote:Hydronium wrote:Meanwhile...
Robert E. Lee was pleased. He was excited/relived that the confederates had made such good progress. Then he thought "Why do we keep fighting a war that we have already won?" Hearing about the confederate withdrawal from Gettysburg, and the relative closeness that Gettysburg is to D.C., he formulated a plan. That night, he told all of his officers and Jefferson Davis that night that he wanted revenge for the confederate soldiers that were killed by the union. That night, Robert E. Lee was going to march to D.C. like Sherman was thinking about doing in Atlanta.
Captian Jacob and his 50 calvery men started to march toward D.C. When they were entering Maryland they seen a small body of reb troops that had about 20 rebs. Captian John then seen his spy come to him and said. There is a very big army of rebs down the road. Captian John said Ok. we will attack this little body of troops. We will raid the rebs till the main army comes. Now. Lt John. You take your men 5 yards to the right. The rest stay here. Ready aim Fire! Bang bang bang! The union calvery troops were shooting very fast. Jacob took out his revolver and started shooting. Lt John and his men threw some gunpowder gernades at the rebs. The calvery men kept on shooting very fast. Jacob said to himself 20 rebs are going to stop us? Ha! Keep attacking till the big army comes!
After the little battle Captian Jacob ordered everyone to fall back. They made camp 10 miles away and dug small trenches so they could defend their position if the rebs attack them. Jacob hoped that Sherman will come east. He sent another letter.
Dear Sherman 2 reb armys are in the north. One is in Maryland the other marching to Philidalphia. We are doing the best we can but we need you to come east. Me and my men are the only ones in the east. Everyone else joined you. Please come as soon as possible. I will head to Harrisburg and camp there. We will meet you there and see what to do about the rebs. Have a safe trip to Harrisburg and we will meet you there.
From Captian Jacob.

