The Great Beefsteak Raid amish As Cornwallis’ defeated army marched

As Cornwallis’ defeated army marched to the surrender

lashed by the current

including a 100-round artillery salute and music from a military band

and civilian companionship

The Great Beefsteak Raid amish As Cornwallis’ defeated army marchedGeneral Wade Hampton, September 16, 1864 By September of 1864, Confederate forces began to show the ill effects of a drawn out War. Food, ammunition, and medicine were in short supply as trench Warfare and siege tactics became the norm. In Virginia, Gen. Wade Hampton was besieged at Petersburg and became well aware of the desperateness of his situation. A new enemy, one even more formidable than the much larger and better outtted Union Army, began to