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The CSS Virginia was a paradigm of Confederate strategy and execution—the brainchild of innovative

inspiring him to write the words to our national anthem

these events marked a major turning point in the Civil War: the waning era of Confederate cavalry dominance in the East gave way to a confident and powerful Union mounted arm

ten postwar presidents appointed former Confederates to serve the reunited nation as Supreme Court justices

But the war did not end on April 9

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) emancipation The CSS Virginia was aby Craig L. Symonds Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U. S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the