Senin, 20 Februari 2017

The Gray Eagle’s False Hope

Maj. Gen. Robert Milroy was convinced his Winchester forts were impregnable. He was wrong. WHEN UNION MAJ. GEN. ROBERT H. MILROY marched his division of approximately 7,000 men into Winchester, Va., on New Year’s Day 1863, he saw the unseasonably warm weather as an omen he had been ordained to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and …

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