Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days BattlesIndiana University Press, 2010 M09 5 - 540 páginas A detailed history of the American Civil War’s first campaign in Virginia in 1862. The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including “Stonewall” Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D. H. Hill, pushed George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac from the gates of Richmond to the James River, where the Union forces reached safety. Along the way, Lee lost several opportunities to harm McClellan. The Seven Days have been the subject of numerous historical treatments, but none more detailed and engaging than Brian K. Burton’s retelling of the campaign that lifted Southern spirits, began Lee’s ascent to fame, and almost prompted European recognition of the Confederacy. “A thoroughly researched and well-written volume that will surely be the starting point for those interested in this particular campaign.” —Journal of American History “A welcome addition to scholarship that should be the standard work on its subject for some time to come.” —Journal of Military History “Plenty of good maps . . . help the reader follow the course of the campaign. . . . Burton does not neglect the role of the common soldiers . . . [and]provides thorough and reasonable analyses of the commanders on both sides.” —Georgia Historical Quarterly “A full and measured account marked by a clear narrative and an interesting strategy of alternating the testimony of generals with their grand plans and the foot soldiers who had to move, shoot, and communicate in the smokey underbrush.” —The Virginia Magazine |
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How Are We to Get at Those People? | |
Lees plan as given in General Orders no 75 | |
The Responsibility Cannot Be Thrown on My Shoulders | |
Oak Grove June 25 1862 | |
Charging Batteries Is Highly Dangerous | |
Why Those Men Are Rebels | |
Weve Got Him | |
Garnetts or Goldings Farm June 28 1862 | |
Allens Farm June 29 1862 | |
He Rose and Walked Off in Silence | |
White Oak Swamp and Bracketts June 30 1862 | |
I Thought I Heard Firing | |
Longstreets assaults Glendale June 30 1862 | |
Confederate movements June 26 1862 | |
Mechanicsville June 26 1862 | |
Little Powell Will Do His Full Duty Today | |
Troop movements June 27 1862 | |
A P Hills attacks Gainess Mill June 27 1862 | |
Were Holding Them but Its Getting Hotter and Hotter | |
Ewells attacks Gainess Mill June 27 1862 | |
I Have a Regiment That Can Take | |
Final assaults on Sykess line Gainess Mill June 27 1862 | |
Final assaults on Morells line Gainess Mill June 27 1862 | |
You Have Done Your Best to Sacrifice This Army | |
Garnetts Farm June 27 1862 | |
His Only Course Seemed to Me Was to Make for James River | |
But What Do You Think? Is the Enemy in Large Force? | |
He Has Other Important Duty to Perform | |
Troop movements June 28 1862 | |
It Is Nothing When You Get Used to | |
A P Hills assaults Glendale June 30 1862 | |
We Had Better Let Him Alone | |
General Magruder Why Did You Attack? | |
It Was a Very Tedious Tiresome March | |
Troop movements July 1 1862 | |
Evelington Heights July 3 1862 | |
Under Ordinary Circumstances the Federal Army Should | |
Appendix A Union and Confederate Troop Strengths | |
Jacksons Dabbs House Conference | |
Savage Station June 29 1862 | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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