While many volumes have been written on the war from any number of perspectives and the “top 100 battles” have been dissected in excruciating detail, most of these 6,000 events lie largely unexplored and forgotten.

While we lament the thousands of casualties at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Pea Ridge, Stones River, Franklin, Kennesaw, Fredericksburg, Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Petersburg, et. al., I am always touched when I see an account of a minor event that states there were 23 Confederate and 41 Union killed. These “minor” events represent the shattering of 64 families, each with a story to tell of their loss of fathers, brothers, uncles and dreams.

This work focuses on uncovering and telling those stories. It is not our intent or objective to refight the war, but to uncover and document the stories of these families in the war.

We will necessarily limit the scope of our writings when we reach the major battles of ’62 and ’63, but our focus will always be on uncovering as many first hand accounts as possible.

It is our intent to release on Sunday of each week an accounting of the events which occurred that week 150 years ago. We will publish this week’s volume for the Kindle on Amazon FREE for Sunday through Thursday of each week.

This volume is excerpted from our multi-volume work, “All the Battles of the Civil War” which gives a narrative account of the more than 5,000 events which occurred in the war. This work runs to more than 2,700 pages and forms the basis of our series of “Historical Sketch and Roster” volumes on each of the more than 6,000 units formed for both the Union and the Confederacy.

Events of the Week
May. 11 - May 17, 1862

Sunday May 11, 1862
· Ossawatomie, Kansas
· Cranet Island, Virginia
· Cave City, Kentucky
· Destruction of the Merrimac (Virginia)
· The Situation in New Mexico
· Bloomfield, Missouri
· Bowling Green Road, Virginia
· Natchez, Mississippi
· Attempted Desertion of Confederate Troops
· Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Monday, May 12, 1862
· The Richmond Dispatch Reports the Battle of Williamsburg, VA
· Forced Conscription of Negroes
Tuesday, May 13, 1862
· Baltimore Cross-Roads, Virginia
· Rappahannock River, Virginia
· Reedy Creek, West Virginia
Wednesday, May 14, 1862
· Martial Law in Atlanta
· Cumberland, Virginia
Thursday, May 15, 1862
· Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
· Gaines' Cross Roads, Virginia
· Linden, Virginia
· Wolf Creek, West Virginia
Friday, May 16, 1862
· Spencer West Virginia
Saturday, May 17, 1862
· Little Red River, Arkansas

While there are many books and papers available that cover network architecture, MPLS services, and MPLS cores, none put all these subjects together in a “beginning-to-end” walk-through methodology using all the necessary configuration examples for Juniper routers, with explanations for each configuration. This Week: Deploying MPLS is a seminar-in-a-book on the process of designing and standing up a MPLS core, as well as provisioning MPLS services such as L3VPN, VPLS, and Layer 2 circuits.

This Week: Deploying MPLS assumes readers have a working knowledge of OSPF or ISIS, iBGP, and eBGP, and have already made a choice as to which IGP to use in their network: OSPF or ISIS. These prerequisites clear the path for an elaborate walk-through deployment of a fault-tolerant MPLS network that includes the “how-to” Junos configurations along with the “why-to” explanations on why some architectural decisions are advantageous and others should be avoided.

If you are a network engineer, network architect, or network administrator in an enterprise or service provider environment that has decided to implement MPLS, be prepared to be shown, not told, what to do.

“If you’re thinking about adding MPLS to your Junos network, this book is perfect. Not only will you find MPLS concepts explained but many real-world Junos configuration examples, too. In short, the book provides the necessary knowledge for an MPLS deployment in a matter of days because you’re never more than a step away from configuring the concepts you’ve just learned.”
Nicholas Harland, Senior Network Engineer, Constant Contact, Inc.

LEARN SOMETHING NEW ABOUT JUNOS THIS WEEK:
• Decide on an appropriate network architecture based on your network’s requirements and offered services.
• Implement a fault-tolerant MPLS core based on LDP, RSVP, or LSP and RSVP, on Juniper Networks routers using the Junos CLI.
• Understand how to troubleshoot an MPLS core. 
• Provision L3VPN, VPLS, and Layer 2 circuits on Juniper Networks routers. 
• Understand all the Junos features in an MPLS implementation.
• Effectively implement traffic engineering and understand how to effectively and efficiently scale your network.

Published by Juniper Networks Books