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| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2026 1:37 p.m. PST |
… Secret Service
"The City Point bombing took place in August of 1864, when the momentum of the Civil War ran in favor of the North, but the Confederacy had real victories too. Robert E. Lee won at Cold Harbour in June 1864. And Confederate Maj. Gen. Jubal Early got within five miles of Washington D.C. in an assault in July. And Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's June attempt to take Petersburg, Virginia on his way to Richmond failed.
The assault on Petersburg turned into a protracted siege, and Grant set up his headquarters in City Point, Virginia. At City Point, the Confederacy achieved one of the most successful sabotage efforts of the war when a spy smuggled a bomb into a shipment and blew up the supply base…" link
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