In Charles Town, West Virginia, Union General Ulysses S. Grant meets with General Phil Sheridan in order to discuss the situation in the Shenandoah Valley. The problem is Confederate General Jubal Early, who continues to harass Union forces and the civilian population. With Mobile and Atlanta in Union hands (two of four major goals Union…
While military armies are the most visible manifestations of the war between the Confederate States and United States, sailors, vastly smaller numerically than soldiers, also play an integral role in the great conflict. The North’s strategy of containing and isolating the South depends heavily upon blockading the enemy’s port cities, while conversely the Confederacy suffers…
Now blanketed by the chill of winter, anxiety courses through the veins of the Confederacy in the wake of many months of military setbacks. Government officials hope that the coming spring months will witness a curtailing of army desertions. Perhaps the revivals taking place in army camps will steel the South’s defenders to once again…