Battle of the Greasy Grass

[Laurie Verge]

I believe I'm correct that Gen. William H. Seward was the first commander of an earthen fort just a few miles from Surratt House that was constructed to protect the Potomac River approach to Washington, D.C. I know that Seward visited there during the war, and I think Stanton and Lincoln did also.

Part of the earthworks still exist as do some really big guns that had been rolled into a gully and left to die sometime around WWI (?). If I remember correctly, it took a Boy Scout troop in the 1970s or 80s to start clearing out the undergrowth before the National Park Service decided to protect what was left.

Google Fort Foote.