Lee’s Retreat Part 2

For Part 1 of Lee’s Retreat, go here.

Day Two dawned dry and nearly sunny, which was a welcome change. If it was as soggy as Day One, I’m pretty sure everyone was willing to go sit in a bar all day and forgo the adventure part of the trip.

During the weird continental/short-order breakfast, we planned our day. Much like the Civil Wargasm chapter of Confederates in the Attic, someone had brought documentation and was reading interesting and relevant parts to both contextualize where we were in the overall picture of Lee’s Retreat and to get us revved up for the ambitious day ahead that would take us the roughly 92.3 miles from Richmond to Appomattox.

The Confederates covered this distance on foot in two weeks.