When 5,000 Confederates Outsmarted 16,000 Union Soldiers #civilwar #shorts

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[00:00:00]A master engineer, he defended the Confederacy strongholds against overwhelming odds.

[00:00:04]An engineer by training, he was a master at building defenses. He held Charleston against repeated Union attacks in 1863 and in his greatest feat, saved Petersburg and with it Richmond in June 1864. With roughly 5,000 men, he stopped a much larger Union force of about 16,000 and bought the Confederacy another 9 months of life.