From January to July of 1862, the armies and navies of the Union and Confederacy conducted an incredibly complex and remarkably diverse range of operations in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Under the direction of leaders like Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, George Mc Clellan, Joseph E. Johnston, John Rodgers, Robert E. Lee, Franklin Buchanan, Irvin Mc Dowell, and Louis M. Goldsborough, men of the Union and Confederate armed forces marched over mountains and through shallow valleys, maneuvered on and along great tidal rivers, bridged and waded their tributaries, battled malarial swamps, dug trenches and constructed fortifications, and advanced and retreated in search of operational and tactical advantage.
In the course of these operations, the North demonstrated it had learned quite a bit from its setbacks of 1861 and was able to achieve significant operational and tactical success on both land and sea. This enabled Union arms to bring a considerable portion of Virginia under Federal control—in some cases temporarily and in others permanently. Indeed, at points during the spring and early summer of 1862, it appeared the North just might succeed in bringing about the defeat of the rebellion before the year was out.
A sweeping study of the operations on land and sea, From the Mountains to the Bay is the only modern scholarly work that looks at the operations that took place in Virginia in early 1862, from the Romney Campaign that opened the year to the naval engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac to the movements and engagements fought by Union and Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley, on the York-James Peninsula, and in northern Virginia, as a single, comprehensive campaign.
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List of Photographs
List of Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. “The Romance of the Thing Is Entirely Worn”: A New Year and a Winter Campaign
2. “A General Conviction That Somebody Must Be Hurt”: Councils of War, the Retreat from Manassas Junction, and the Fall of Winchester
3. “Wondering What Would Happen Nex”: Planning Operations, Commanders and Capitals, and the Flight of the Ironclads
4. “We Shall Have Lively Times”: Kernstown, a Pathfinder, and the Move to the Peninsula
5. “The Grass Will Not Grown under My Feet” The Grand Campaign on the Peninsula Begins
6. “Sunny South Indeed!” Blenker’ March to the Mountains and Problems and Yorktown
7. “Matters Are Progressing” Maneuvers in the Valley, Fredericksburg, the Fight at Dam No. 1, and the Siege of Yorktown
8. “:Let the Boys Yell!” Harrisonburg, the Fall of Yorktown, and the Fight at Williamsburg
9. “We Have . . . Met the Enemy”: Eltham’ Landing, Sitlington’s Hill, a Presidential Campaign, and Drewry’s Bluff
10. “Affairs Have about Come to A Crisis”: Mc Dowell Prepares the Advance to the Chickahominy, and Jackson Returns to the Valley
Epilogue—“If You Will Write the Decline and Fall of This Rebellion”
Appendix A—Union Order of Battle
Appendix B—Confederate Order of Battle
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Ethan S. Rafuse is a professor of military history at the US Army Command General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His publications include Mc Clellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863–1865, and (with Charles R. Bowery, Jr.) Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.
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