The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven DaysGary W. Gallagher The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan fac |
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... Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers . The climactic clash came on June 26- July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days battles , when Lee , newly appointed as com- mander ...
... Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers . The climactic clash came on June 26- July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days battles , when Lee , newly appointed as com- mander ...
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... Robert K. Krick The Great Paragon of Virtue and Sobriety : John Bankhead Magruder and the Seven Days 96 Peter S. Carmichael A Feeling of Restless Anxiety : Loyalty and Race in the Peninsula Campaign and Beyond 121 James Marten The Seven ...
... Robert K. Krick The Great Paragon of Virtue and Sobriety : John Bankhead Magruder and the Seven Days 96 Peter S. Carmichael A Feeling of Restless Anxiety : Loyalty and Race in the Peninsula Campaign and Beyond 121 James Marten The Seven ...
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... Robert E. Lee from his desk as a military adviser in Richmond to the field . Lee spent the first three weeks of June preparing to take the initiative against McClellan . For his part , the Federal commander seemed content to grant his ...
... Robert E. Lee from his desk as a military adviser in Richmond to the field . Lee spent the first three weeks of June preparing to take the initiative against McClellan . For his part , the Federal commander seemed content to grant his ...
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... Robert E. Lee at the head of the Confederacy's biggest army , it soon became obvious that whatever strategy the North adopted in the Eastern Theater would confront enormous obstacles . Hindsight eventually would reveal that Lee's ...
... Robert E. Lee at the head of the Confederacy's biggest army , it soon became obvious that whatever strategy the North adopted in the Eastern Theater would confront enormous obstacles . Hindsight eventually would reveal that Lee's ...
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... Robert K. Krick canvassed obscure as well as more accessible sources to evaluate Jackson's notoriously flawed performance dur- ing the Seven Days . He allocates most of his attention to four episodes : Jack- son's march from the ...
... Robert K. Krick canvassed obscure as well as more accessible sources to evaluate Jackson's notoriously flawed performance dur- ing the Seven Days . He allocates most of his attention to four episodes : Jack- son's march from the ...
Contents
The 1862 Richmond Campaign in Perspective | xv |
The Seven Days of George Brinton McClellan | 26 |
McClellan and His Engineers on the Chickahominy | 42 |
Stonewall Jackson in the Seven Days | 64 |
John Bankhead Magruder and the Seven Days | 94 |
Loyalty and Race in the Peninsula Campaign and Beyond | 119 |
Convincing Moderates in the North of the Need for a Hard War | 151 |
The Decisive Charge of Whitings Division at Gainess Mill | 179 |
Union and Confederate Artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill | 215 |
Bibliographic Essay | 249 |
Contributors | 255 |
Index | 257 |
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