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McClellan out smarts himself, Johnston rides away
Gingerly moving from his base of operations at Fort Monroe on April 5, 1862, timid Union Major General (MG) George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac ran into MG John B. Magruder’s much smaller Confederate army entrenched at Yorktown behind … Continue reading
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Minuteman Mythology
The United and Confederate States in 1861 suffered from Minuteman Mythology; the idea its men could leave the plow and the anvil and within a moments notice form ranks and defeat any foe. The reality was, the soldiers of the … Continue reading
Through a Dark Lens 