Burnside’s “Mud March” begins: Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, launches a winter offensive against the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee.
Postscript: Unseasonably warm weather, rain, dissension among his staff and logistical blunders turned the campaign into a fiasco. The Army of the Potomac suffered as many casualties as from a typical battle—without encountering a single Confederate Soldier. A week later Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, fired Burnside.
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Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 298.
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