To the Gates of Richmond by Stephen W. Sears

On January 27, 1862, Lincoln issued Special Orders No. Although McClellan organized and trained the Union recruits, he proved reluctant to commit them to battle. McClellan formed and took command of the Army of the Potomac in August 1861 after the Union defeat at the First Battle of Manassas on July 21 he became general-in-chief of all Union armies in November, after the resignation of Winfield Scott. Lee took command of Confederate forces, attacking McClellan three weeks later and, in the Seven Days’ Campaign, driving him off the Peninsula and saving Richmond. Johnston was wounded in the two-day battle, and Robert E. Then Johnston took advantage of the fact that McClellan’s army was caught on both sides of a rain-swollen Chickahominy River, attacking him at the Battle of Seven Pines–Fair Oaks on May 31. Union and Confederate forces next fought each other at Williamsburg on May 5. Johnston‘s Army of Northern Virginia to arrive. Consequently, on April 5 McClellan began a siege rather than attacking, providing time for Joseph E.

Magruder, who convinced McClellan that Confederate forces were stronger than they actually were. He was confronted at Yorktown by Confederates under John B. Pressured by United States president Abraham Lincoln to mount an offensive-Union forces had been dormant since the previous July-McClellan steamed his Army of the Potomac down the Chesapeake Bay, landed it at Fort Monroe, and marched it up the Peninsula between the James and York rivers. McClellan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond from the southeast during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The Peninsula Campaign, fought during the spring and summer of 1862, was an attempt by Union general-in-chief George B.

To the Gates of Richmond by Stephen W. Sears