The seized ironclad USS Merrimack is rechristened as the CSS Virginia and begins the effort to break the compulsory Union naval blockade.
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The Battle of Pea Ridge/Elkhorn Tavern (Arkansas): Major General Samuel R. Curtis, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Southwest, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of the West, commanded by Major General Earl Van Dorn.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 287.
Matthew Galman, ed., The Civil War Chronicle, (New York: Crown, 2000), 146-48.
Battle of Pea Ridge – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge
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