The Richmond campaign of 1862 : the Peninsula and the Seven Days / edited by Gary W. Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, Gary W.

Series:

Military campaigns of the Civil War.

Military campaigns of the Civil War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.

Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862.

Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Richmond (Va.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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 commander of the Confederate forces, aggressively attacked the Union army. Casualties for the entire campaign exceeded 50,000, more than 35,000 of whom fell during th

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; A Civil War Watershed: The 1862 Richmond Campaign in Perspective; The Seven Days of George Brinton McClellan; I Only Wait for the River: McClellan and His Engineers on the Chickahominy; Sleepless in the Saddle: Stonewall Jackson in the Seven Days; The Great Paragon of Virtue and Sobriety: John Bankhead Magruder and the Seven Days; A Feeling of Restless Anxiety: Loyalty and Race in the Peninsula Campaign and Beyond; The Seven Days and the Radical Persuasion: Convincing Moderates in the North of the Need for a Hard War

The Men Who Carried This PositionWere Soldiers Indeed: The Decisive Charge of Whiting's Division at Gaines's MillOne Solid Unbroken Roar of Thunder: Union and Confederate Artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill; Bibliographic Essay; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9798890873019

9780807873564

080787356X

OCLC:

773565315