• Today is the sesquicentennial of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point (almost one year after the inception at Fort Sumter). It [...]

  150 Years Ago Today – The Battle of Shiloh

  April 6, 2012
• As McClellan began the Virginia Peninsula Campaign by pushing his large army (about 120,000) from Fort Monroe, his troops soon encountered a [...]

  150 Years Ago Today – The Siege of Yorktown Begins

  April 4, 2012
• After months of preparation (along with criticism for the inaction of The Army of the Potomac), McClellan himself departed Washington (“that [...]

  150 Years Ago Today – McClellan Leaves Washington for Peninsula Campaign

  April 1, 2012