Strategy In the Snow: Mort Kunstler's Dec. 2017 Calendar

STRATEGY IN THE SNOW

Fredericksburg, VA, November 28, 1862.  In late November of 1962, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia held a long line through the city of Fredericksburg and along the south side of the Rappahannock River.  Across the river lay the federal Army of the Potomac.

Lee was left to wait on the inevitable Northern attack, while trying to predict where and when it would come.  On the evening of November 29, 1862, General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson arrived at Lee's headquarters.  Jackson had been summoned by Lee to help plot a defense against the impending Northern attack.

Amid the silently falling snow of a severe winter storm, Lee and Jackson left to prepare for the battle to come.  The strategy plotted in the snow would again thwart the Northern advance on Richmond, destroy the ambitions of another Federal commander and earn Jackson and Lee greater reputations for invincibility.

--Old Secesh