Griffith Sees the Elephant

It is easy to think of 1861-65 as just a period of war. It was much more than that. Winfield Scott, 75, the first Federal commanding general, maligned for being too old for the job, and for devising a strategy (the "Anaconda Plan") that many in the North thought too timid, understood what was going on better than many half his age. "It is revolutionary times..." he wrote. He was right. It was a social and political revolution that would not be clarified until Abraham Lincoln spoke 272 words...