The Confederate Alamo: By John J fox, III

The Confederate Alamo. Is the first book- length study ever written about the chaotic and bloody battle of Fort Greg.  By April 2, 1865, Ulysses S.Grant’s men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia.  Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had never face such dire circumstances.

To give Lee time to craft an escape, a small motley group of threadbare southerners made a suicidal stand at a place called Fort Gregg.  Famous Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman described this fight as” one of the most dramatic incidents of an overwhelming day.  The venerable Union Commander, Major General John Gibbon, observed “ the struggle was one of the most desperate ever witness.”