![]() McClellan began transporting his 121,000-man Army of the In Virginia, where Union forces outnumbered Confederates three to one, Davis’s military paradox seemed insolvable. ![]() “The military paradox, that impossibilities must be rendered possible, had never better occasion for application.” ![]() “Recent defeats have depressed the weak and are depriving us of the aid of the wavering,” lamented Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Troubling, European recognition had eluded the Confederacy. Grant’s victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Union forces had overrun Kentucky, Missouri and the greater part of Tennessee. Mountains and the Mississippi River.) Spearheaded by Maj. February had brought a numbing string of strategic defeats in the vast Western Theater (the area between the Appalachian In March 1862, the South’s experiment in disunion seemed destined to meet a near and violent end. ![]() Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. ![]()
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