Originally, we had our staff ride scheduled for a day in phase 1, but Superstorm Sandy quashed that idea. After much delay to perfect the different class schedules, it finally came around today.
Although I liked the idea of a field trip as a break from classroom boredom -- and, yes, the weather was more preferable to a hurricane -- most of us still had some very strong opinions about walking around in the rain.
Ostensibly, the staff ride was supposed to teach us about the importance of logistics in General McClellan's Peninsular Campaign during spring/summer 1862. That was fine, but I think there's a more applicable lesson -- just how miserable General Burnside's men were marching around soggy Virginia in the
January 1863 Fredericksburg Campaign.
I'm sure would all have identified with that.
Ostensibly, the staff ride was supposed to teach us about the importance of logistics in General McClellan's Peninsular Campaign during spring/summer 1862. That was fine, but I think there's a more applicable lesson -- just how miserable General Burnside's men were marching around soggy Virginia in the January 1863 Fredericksburg Campaign.
I'm sure would all have identified with that.
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