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  1. "We haven't taken Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell." - Jubal Early, Confederate General

    Date(s): July 11, 1864 to July 12, 1864 Location: Fort Stevens, Washington, DC Tag(s): American Civil War, Battle of Fort Stevens, Abraham Lincoln, Jubal Early, Ulysses Grant 

    "Cypher War Department Washington City, July 10---2.P.M. 1864 Lieut. Gen. Grant City-Point, Va Your despatch to Gen. Halleck, referring to what I may think in the present emergency, is shown me. Gen. Halleck says we have absolutely no force here fit to go to the field. He thinks that with the hundred day-men, and invalids we have here, we can defend Washington, and scarcely Baltimore. Besides these,...