The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide
- ISBN-10
- 0803262469
- ISBN-13
- 9780803262461
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-05
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Brian K. Burton
Description
Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia?as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas ?Stonewall? Jackson worked together. In this guidebook, the acknowledged expert on the Seven Days Battles conducts readers, tourists, and armchair travelers through the history and terrain of this pivotal series of Civil War battles. ø Maps and descriptive overviews of the battles guide readers to key locales and evoke a sense of what participants on either side saw in 1862. From the beginning of George B. McClellan?s Peninsula Campaign, which culminated in the Seven Days, to the bloody battles that saved the Confederate capital from capture, this guide unfolds the strategies, routes, and key engagements of this critical campaign, offering today?s visitors and Civil War enthusiasts the clearest picture yet of what happened during the Seven Days.
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