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Volume Two starts in March, 1862 with Lee back Richmond after an extended absence. He was stunned by the chaos and anxiety visible in the Confederate capital. McClellan got built a superbly prepared army of over 100,000 military which Virginians feared might invade anytime. In May, McClellan began to move his huge Military of the Potomac the peninsula and so near Richmond that church steeples were within his view. The situation looked hopeless, especially with another large Union army under General Bankers to the north in the Shenandoah Valley. But in past due May, after a couple weeks of desultory fighting and maneuvering, General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Military of North Virginia, fell wounded. Lee assumed command word. By the end of June, Lee got miraculously influenced all Federal forces from the state of hawaii. With consummate skill, Lee reorganized the Confederate forces and through the following time, with armies half the size of the Union's, defeated one Federal government invasion after the other. But time was operating out for the South, and omens of approaching disaster loomed. Neglected opportunities and dwindling manpower were menacing signs. Then, in-may, 1863, a triumphant Confederate success at Chancellorsville was marred by dreadful reports: the death of the main one man Lee cannot afford to reduce. Listeners are urged to follow battles using the maps which Freeman himself drew, and that are included in the associated downloadable PDF report.
