Category: History - American
THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN, SUMMER 1862 On to Richmond 3 Up the Peninsula 4 Drewry’s Bluff 5 Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) 6 Lee Takes Command 9 The Seven Days Begin 12 Beaver Dam Creek (Ellerson’s Mill) 13 Gaines’ Mill 16 Savage Station 18 Glendale (Frayser’s Farm) 21 Malvern Hill 22 E...
Instead of marching overland, McClellan decided to take advantage of Union control of the inland waters and transport his army, with its vast supplies and materiel, down the Pot...
4. Part TwoIn March 1864 President Lincoln appointed Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as commanding general of all the Union armies. Said Grant: “In the east the opposing forces stood in substantiall...
2. Part TwoThe American Civil War _was unique in many respects. One of the great turning points in American history, it was a national tragedy of international significance. Simultaneously...
1. Part OneTHE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN, SUMMER 1862 On to Richmond 3 Up the Peninsula 4 Drewry’s Bluff 5 Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) 6 Lee Takes Command 9 The Seven Days Begin 12 Beaver Dam Creek (...