Virtual Book Talk – “From the Mountains to the Bay,” by Ethan S. Rafuse

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 military operations 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. Ethan S. Rafuse is a professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His publications include “McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union,” and (with Charles R. Bowery, Jr.) “Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.”