The Seven Days Campaign Of 1862

The Seven Days Campaign of 1862 was a sequence of battles that took place along the Virginia Peninsula east of Richmond between the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Virginia Army. The campaign consisted of the following six battles: Mechanicsville, Gaines ' Mill, and Savage Station, engagement at Oak Swamp Bridge, and battles of Frazier 's Farm and Malvern Hill over a seven-day period. Major General George B. McClellan led the Union Army of nearly 104,000 soldiers, while General Robert

expansion, slavery, and federal rights versus states rights. “I have fought against the people of the North because I believe they were seeking it’s dearest rights. But never have I cherished toward or vindictive feelings and I have never seen the day I did not pray for them.” (Robert E. Lee Quotes). After North Carolina,

George Brinton McClellan was born on Dec. 3, 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and also attended the University of Pennsylvania. He was the second in a class of fifty-nine. He served in the Mexican War and worked as an Army surveyor on the Red River in the Western territories and on railroad routes industry until the Civil War started. He was married to Mary McClellan at the Calvary Church in New York City. They had one child together, George B. McClellan

The Civil War took place in 1861 and it lasted up until 1865. It was a war between the United States or, The Union army rather, and eleven deep rooted southern states known as the Confederacy. The Civil War occurred mainly as a direct response to slavery. The South preferred to keep slavery and the North simply wanted to preserve the Union. However, there were many other incidents that occurred and there were different battles that caused the Civil War to have its end results. Those battles will

on Richmond in the summer, give his solders a morale-boosting offensive they needed, and by taking the war further north, giver war-weary Virginia a respite from fighting. Ever since his command of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Seven Days Battle in 1862, Lee had been relentlessly aggressive, so that by the summer of 1863, he had already created a legend of Confederate

it would end the Civil War (MacDonald 12). The Confederate army was committed to protecting all routs to Richmond. One year later, in 1862 Jackson blindsided the Union and defeated two Union forces. The blindside defeat of the Union proved that Jackson was a relentless and determined military mind. Jackson did this during the Shenandoah Valley campaign. George McClellan, commander of the Union Army, came up with a plan to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. McClellan was not known as

tap of a keg or to put out the fires and lights at the end of the day (US Department of Veterans Affair, n.d.). Armies have used the tune as a signal to prepare for bedtime roll call for many years

On the fourth of March in 1861, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth President of the United States of America. President Lincoln was born on the twelfth of February in 1809 in a log cabin located in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and died at the age of fifty-six on the fifteenth of April in 1865 in Washington, D.C. In 1834, Abraham Lincoln was elected as a member of the Whig party into the Illinois state legislature. Being involved with politics helped form and shape his view about slavery. Lincoln

On March 11, 1862, Lincoln made the decision to remove McClellan as General-in-Chief, demoting him to command only the Army of the Potomac. Chief of Staff, Peyton March, sent a telegram to McClellan in refence to his orders and instructed him to speak first to Governor Dennison. Suspicious of this message McClellan refused the invitation to Washington or to speak to Dennison. Later, the General wrote to his wife that the rascals of Washington were after him again and that if he could come out of

for the battle • Commanding officers during the battle III. Confederate troops heading into Antietam • Movement of Confederate troops after Richmond • Lee victorious to move into Maryland IV. The battle • Three phases of battle throughout the day • Union bad choices opportunity for Confederacy V. Conclusion  SFC Fuentescolon SSG Lund SSG Patruno SSG Wisniowski Instructor: SFC Ogdenski Senior Leaders Course 13B40 Class 002-15 17 October 2014 The United States after its independence from