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Sinking of the USS Cumberland

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 8, 1862

Impatient with General McClellan’s slowness in engaging Confederate forces, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln today issues an order reorganizing the Army of Virginia, in the process relieving McClellan of supreme command of Union forces. Given the command of the Army of the Potomac, McClellan is ordered to attack the Confederate capital of Richmond. Thus begins the…

March 8, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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