http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1119147737&channel=714332816
This is a neat animated map showing the course of the US Civil War as it related to major engagements and army movements. While it cannot capture any of the social or economic factors that contributed to the downfall of the Confederacy, troop movements have always been the hardest thing for me to visualise. It’s quite fascinating to watch the Anaconda‘s death grip take hold, and the coup de gr