Battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. We talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederac
Battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. We talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederac
Going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederacy decides, ok, they took our capital but well keep on fighting. The war has been going on about a year. If the confederacy loses their National Capital within a year it very well could be th
Theres the threat of rain around. A couple sprinkles and showers to the southeast of allentown beginning to push over into south jersey. Burlington county appears to be the focus of light sprinkles right now in south jersey itself and then theres more shower activity coming up the i95 corridor getting ready to pop into southern Chester County and i can see delaware also catching some of that before too much longer. The wide view on satellite shows you lots of clouds. We might get a couple sunny breaks today but generally speaking mostly cloudy skies and more rain back by richmond and West Virginia and rich respond in pond is in virginia of course but West Virginia also showing showers. All of that is heading our way. It will be a day where well have to keep a lookout for some off and on showers and a thunderstorm. Wow theyre picking up the trash behind me. 73 in philadelphia, 73 in wilmington. 68 currently in allentown. 75 in cape may and the dewpoints are up this morning. Were in the
Clark this week. Lets get your wednesday started with weather and traffic. It was warm and hot yesterday. Yes. A little bit of a cooldown. A lot of high clouds coming in. It doesnt matter in the city or along the coast. Not gonna be that hot. Thank goodness we didnt have an offshore breeze. As it was, mainly confined to inland areas. Some breaks in the higher clouds but theres definitely an increase in those coming up from the San Joaquin Valley, sacramento valley, heat advisory out, same areas as yesterday. But the cloud cover is racing in here fast. Very thick on the golden gate. Some rain embedded in this taking the turn after arizona coming up from southern california. The high desert and i think a lot of that plays in our weather with an increase in the clouds. Westsouthwest 21. But theres extremely warm hot air aloft which will translate into toasty numbers again inland. But yesterday we didnt have the high clouds. Today they will be there. Thats why i think it will be still toas