The Peninsula: McClellan's Campaign of 1862 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Peninsula: McClellan's Campaign of 1862So much has been written on this subject that it would not at first appear to be a difficult matter to condense the various accounts; but to the writer's task has been added the special work required in comparing and collating for careful investigation the new material gathered by the War Department, and now for the first time made the basis of a history of that period. The results of that labor he presents in these pages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Webb, Alexander S.

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Alexander Stewart Webb (February 15, 1835 â February 12, 1911) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he was president of the City College of New York for thirty-three years. So much has been written on this subject that it would not at first appear to be a difficult matter to condense the various accounts ; but to the writer's task has been added the special work required in comparing and collating for careful investigation the new material gathered by the War Department, and now for the first time made the basis of a history of that period. The results of that labor he resents in these pages. A note from the publisher: We are very proud to present this third part of the series "Campaigns of the Civil War" to all Kindle readers. It has taken some time to review and optimize this 1881 book for the needs of the 21st century. What you hve here is not a scanned or photgraphed version of the orginal text, but the original text reworked and put into a real ebook. The original maps are included! This book is one of the basics you need to have when diving into American history and the Civil War period especially. It covers the following chapters: PREFACE. CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL McCLELLAN AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. CHAPTER 2 - CAMPAIGN PLANS. CHAPTER 3 - ACTIVE OPERATIONS.âSIEGE OF YORKTOWN. CHAPTER 4 - FORWARD FROM YORKTOWN-BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG. CHAPTER 5 - TO THE CHICKAHOMINY â McDOWELL â JACKSON IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEYâAFFAIR OF HANOVER COURT HOUSE. CHAPTER 6 - BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS. CHAPTER 7 - WITHDRAWAL TO THE JAMES.âTHE "SEVEN DAYSâ BATTLE." BATTLE OF GAINES' MILL BATTLE OF ALLEN'S FARM. BATTLE OF SAVAGE'S STATION. BATTLE OF GLENDALE, OR NELSON'S FARM. CHAPTER 8 - BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL. CHAPTER 9 â TERMNATION OF THE CAMPAIGN

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