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586058
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b415277
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| Title & Author
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The Richmond campaign of 1862 : : the Peninsula and the Seven Days /\ edited by Gary W. Gallagher.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2000.
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| Series Statement
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Military campaigns of the Civil War
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| Page. NO
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xv, 272 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0807825522 (alk. paper)
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: 9780807825525 (alk. paper)
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: 0807859192
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: 9780807859193
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255) and index.
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| Contents
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A Civil War watershed: the 1862 Richmond Campaign in perspective / Gary W. Gallagher. -- The seven days of George Brinton McClellan / John T. Hubbell. -- I only wait for the River: McClellan and his engineers on the Chickahominy / William F. Miller. -- Sleepless in the saddle: Stonewall Jackson in the seven days / Robert K. Krick. -- The great paragon of virtue and sobriety: John Bankhead Magruder and the seven days / Peter S. Carmichael. -- A feeling of restless anxiety: loyalty and race in the Peninsula Campaign and beyond / James Marten. -- The seven days and the radical persuasion: convincing moderates in the North of the need for a hard war / William A. Blair. -- The men who carried this position were soldiers indeed: the decisive charge of Whiting's Division at Gaines's Mill / R.E.L. Krick. -- One solid unbroken roar of thunder: Union and Confederate artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill / Keith S. Bohannon.
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| Abstract
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"This book offers nine essays that explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign.
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The authors, all well-known Civil War historians, have consulted previously untapped manuscript sources and reinterpreted more familiar evidence, sometimes focusing closely on the fighting around Richmond and sometimes looking more broadly at the background and consequences of the campaign.".
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"The book includes an analysis of the Richmond campaign's place in the broader sweep of the war in 1862, assessments of George B. McClellan's generalship and Stonewall Jackson's flawed performance, and an examination of the campaign's impact on white and black civilians in the region. It also covers the role of engineers in the Union effort, the conduct of W. H. C.
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Whiting's Confederate division in the battle of Gaines's Mill, the role of artillery in the battle of Malvern Hill, and the efforts of Radical Republicans in the North to use the Richmond campaign to rally support for emancipation."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Subject
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Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
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Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862.
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Richmond (Va.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| LC Classification
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E473.6.R54 2000
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| Added Entry
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Gallagher, Gary W.
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