March 8, 1862: a date best remembered
for the duel between the ironclads USS
Monitor and the CSA Merrimack at
Hampton Roads, was also the date of the
Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas--the most
important encounter in the Trans-
Mississippi Theater--while in Washington,
President Lincoln discussed the plans for
the invasion of Richmond with General
George McClellan, Commander of the
Army of the Potomac.
Until very recently warfare was, at best, a
collection of independent actions by
commanders in the field and their
subordinates. Without modern
communications general directives had to
be interpreted on the battlefield--there
was no way to check back with HQ. This
important concept is made clear in The
Civil War, Day by Day where we follow
the action chronologically, seeing the
different events happening on land, on sea
and in Washington and Richmond, often
very independent of one another.
Seven chapters follow the war between
the North and South, starting with the
origins of Secession, the five years of
bloody conflict, and finishing with the era
of reconstruction that followed the end of
hostilities in 1865.
It is only possible to fully appreciate
Jackson s "stonewalling" at Bull Run,
Grant s demand ff)r unconditional
surrender at Fort Donelson or Sherman s
decisive March to the Sea by examining
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