The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days [NOOK Book]

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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. ...
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Overview

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 the Seven Days.

This book offers nine essays in which well-known Civil War historians explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign. The authors have consulted previously untapped manuscript sources and reinterpreted more familiar evidence, sometimes focusing closely on the fighting around Richmond and sometimes looking more broadly at the background and consequences of the campaign.

Contributors:
William A. Blair
Keith S. Bohannon
Peter S. Carmichael
Gary W. Gallagher
John T. Hubbell
R. E. L. Krick
Robert K. Krick
James Marten
William J. Miller

The Richmond campaign of 1862, waged by armies under Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. This book offers nine essays in which well-known Civil War historians explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign. The authors have consulted previously untapped manuscript sources and reinterpreted more familiar evidence, sometimes focusing closely on the fighting around Richmond and sometimes looking more broadly at the background and consequences of the campaign. The contributors are William A. Blair, Keith S. Bohannon, Peter S. Carmichael, Gary W. Gallagher, John T. Hubbell, Robert E. L. Krick, Robert K. Krick, James Marten, and William J. Miller.
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Editorial Reviews

Virginia Quarterly Revie
No where else is so deep a consideration of these and other ponderable aspects of this campaign so conveniently or compellingly condensed as in this splendid volume.
Richmond Times Dispatch
Offers a series of solidly researched and easily readable essays written by well-known professional and amateur historians.
North & South
The essays are well written and offer interesting insights.
America's Civil War
[Provides] a deeper understanding of the campaign's importance and its place in the larger framework of the war.
James I. Robertson Jr.
These essays probe longstanding questions and flesh out credible answers relative to the first major offensive of Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
From the Publisher
No academic library should be without this volume.

Journal of Southern History

All these essays enhance understanding of the Peninsular campaign.

Civil War History

Gallagher's editorial efforts have once again added significantly to the literature of the Civil War.

Journal of American History

Another fine addition to the University of North Carolina Press's 'Military Campaigns of the Civil War' series.

American Historical Review

Splendid.

Virginia Quarterly Review

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807873564
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
  • Publication date: 9/18/2000
  • Series: Military Campaigns of the Civil War
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 733,654
  • File size: 5 MB

Meet the Author

Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has published widely on the Civil War, including six previous titles in the Military Campaigns of the Civil War series.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
A Civil War Watershed: The 1862 Richmond Campaign in Perspective 3
The Seven Days of George Brinton McClellan 28
I Only Wait for the River: McClellan and His Engineers on the Chickahominy 44
Sleepless in the Saddle: Stonewall Jackson in the Seven Days 66
The Great Paragon of Virtue and Sobriety: John Bankhead Magruder and the Seven Days 96
A Feeling of Restless Anxiety: Loyalty and Race in the Peninsula Campaign and Beyond 121
The Seven Days and the Radical Persuasion: Convincing Moderates in the North of the Need for a Hard War 153
The Men Who Carried This Position Were Soldiers Indeed: The Decisive Charge of Whiting's Division at Gaines's Mill 181
One Solid Unbroken Roar of Thunder: Union and Confederate Artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill 217
Bibliographic Essay 251
Contributors 257
Index 259
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