Book Description
Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia—as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson worked together. In this guidebook, the acknowledged expert on the Seven Days Battles conducts readers, tourists, and armchair travelers through the history and terrain of this pivotal series of Civil War battles.
Maps and descriptive overviews of the battles guide readers to key locales and evoke a sense of what participants on either side saw in 1862. From the beginning of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, which culminated in the Seven Days, to the bloody battles that saved the Confederate capital from capture, this guide unfolds the strategies, routes, and key engagements of this critical campaign, offering today’s visitors and Civil War enthusiasts the clearest picture yet of what happened during the Seven Days.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Guide.......2006-08-29
I am a battlefield walker, alone, in a group, with or without a guide. The best walks are in a group with a guide; however, that often is not possible. When a guide and a group are not possible, a good book is the next best thing. The problem is battle histories are not designed to walk you from point to point, outlining what happened and why it is important. Histories, even the best of them, often do not make a good battlefield guidebook.
Starting in 1987, The U.S. Army War College addressed this problem with a series of battlefield guides for military personal and battlefield walkers. The format is a combination of detailed instructions moving you from point to point, commentary in current military language on the action coupled with selections from first person accounts. A map for each stop, an overview map of the field and plenty of illustrations produce a very usable guide that provides a detailed view of the battle then and now.
The Seven Days always has been a difficult campaign for me to follow. The continuous movement, switching between the Union line of march and the Confederate fronts, while considering the overall political situation, causes me to lose the terrain details. I can follow Sears or Burton, understand what is happening but never seem to get the grip on the terrain that is possible at Gettysburg or Shiloh. Thanks to Matt Spruill III and IV, that problem is solved.
Echoes of Thunder is like seeing an old friend. The book uses the War College format, Matt Spruill III is the author of the Chickamauga guide, causing me to settle in for a good informative time. Each battle is a chapter in the book, with detailed instructions on how to move from field to field. For the first time, I started to grasp the movement of the armies while reading these instructions. Each battle is well represented with a number of stops, directions to each stop and a good narration of what we are looking at. The participants tell the story of the action at each stop. These first person accounts tell us more than any author could. Coupled with the author's narration, the two produce a good solid overview of the battle and the campaign, supplementing the study of the field.
This is a valuable and welcome addition to this series of battlefield guides. This book will provide you with a guide on the field or it will supplement reading about The Seven Days. In either case, you will have your own guide whenever you need one. I will look for you at one of the stops along the way.
Book Description
The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The climactic clash came on June 26-July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days battles, when Lee, newly appointed as commander of the Confederate forces, aggressively attacked the Union army. Casualties for the entire campaign exceeded 50,000, more than 35,000 of whom fell during the Seven Days.
This book offers nine essays in which well-known Civil War historians 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. The authors 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.
Contributors:
William A. Blair
Keith S. Bohannon
Peter S. Carmichael
Gary W. Gallagher
John T. Hubbell
R. E. L. Krick
Robert K. Krick
James Marten
William J. Miller
Customer Reviews:
Insightful essays about Richmond Campaign.......2001-09-19
I agree with an earlier reviewer who writes that this book is a great companion (or follow-up) book to Stephen Sears "To the Gates of Richmond". Mr. Sears books gives a vivid account of the overall campaign, while this book offers some insightful essays about certain aspects of the campaign. The authors are all experts in the field, and offer well written essays for the reader to contemplate.
I really enjoyed this book because the authors cover a wide range of topics to include General McClellan's flawed performance, "Stonewall" Jackson's less than stellar leadership during the campaign, the artillery battle at Malvern Hill, "Prince" John Magruder's struggles, and the affect of the campaign on both Northern and Southern society. These detailed essays offer readers the latest and greatest scholarship about the Richmond campaign. They really helped me gain a much deeper understanding about what the campaign was like, why it was so important to the overall war effort (for both sides), and most importantly, how did if affect those involved.
I highly recommend this book for those "students" of the Civil War (like me) who are looking to gain a richer grasp of the events that happened during the Richmond campaign. If you have not read anything about the Richmond campaign (usually referred to as the Pennisula and Seven Days campaign) then I suggest that you read "To the Gates of Richmond" by Stephen Sear first, then this book.
Fascinating Detail on Key Battles , Leaders and Politics.......2001-06-01
Great book to read after Stephen Sear's Penninsula Campaign (even noted by the editor). This great collection of CW historians take the leading characters and events of the 7 days campaign and provide insights to this fascinating series of battles that set the Union back three years. Fascinating writing of John Bankhead Magruder, the hero of the lower Peninsula, whose prewar reputation for drink and ladies combined with lack of sleep, stress, illness and improper medical treatment created a magnifyer for his failures particularly at Malvern Hill. Lee's desire to rid himself of Magruder who was a hero just weeks before is in stark contrast to his retaining of Stonewall who as R. K. Krick writes was virtually ineffective for a multitude of reasons, primarily due to sleep deprivation. Also, great essays on McClellan whose grandiose ego was not able to stand upright on the battlefield and his engineers who could build anything he needed but were used as scapegoats just like anyone else to excuse his own conduct. Additional essays are on the great importance of the seven days battles to lift southern morale and the enhancement of the radicals position contributed to by McClellan's failures during the campaign. Superb article on the artillery duel on Malvern Hill and confederate attack that collapsed under murderous and accurate union artillery fire. The Union's artillery was no match for its southern counterparts. R.E.L. Krick highlights Whiting's Division (with Hood) breaking the Union line decisively at Gaines Mill. No one knows the battlefield better than Krick. Longstreet may have wished he never picked up a pen after Krick writes of Longstreet's post war confusion of facts over his command of Whiting, "It appears an unusually early example of the gasconade for which Longstreet is now famous". That commentary would have made "Old Jube" proud.
Nine essays exploring questions regarding high command.......2001-03-11
The April-July 1862 Richmond campaign was a critical point in the American civil war that resulted in more than 50,000 casualties, 35,000 of whom fell in seven days (June 26 - July 1). The Richmond Campaign Of 1862: The Peninsula & The Seven Days offers nine essays exploring questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon the politics and society of both the Union and the Confederacy, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign. Included is an invaluable 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, an examination of the campaign's impact on white and black civilians in the region, the role of the engineers in the Union effort, the role of artillery in the battle of Malvern Hill, and more. Highly recommended for personal and academic Civil War studies reading lists and reference collections, The Richmond Campaign Of 1862 is an impressive work of painstaking, informative, insightful scholarship.
Book Description
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES tells the story of the Seven Days Battles, the first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia. One of the most decisive military campaigns in Western history, the Seven Days were fought in the area southeast of the Confederate capitol of Richmond from June 25 to July 1, 1862--and began a string of events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation and the shift toward total war.
Customer Reviews:
" I shall see who they are" Col. Micah Jenkins........2007-01-10
The 16th Michigan from Dan Butterfield's brigade headed to the breach but was stopped thanks to quick thinking by Col. Micah Jenkins of the Palmetto (South Carolina) Sharpshooters of Anderson's brigade. One of Jenkins men who had sprained his ankle during the charge saw the Michiganders marching up. Limping over to Jenkins, he reported what he had seen. Jenkins was skeptical, but said, "I shall see who they are." Stepping forward , he asked the marchers what unit they belonged to. When the answer, "Sixteenth Michigan," came back, Jenkins ordered his men to fire. Captain Thomas Carr fell dead, the first man of the regiment killed. The Yankees and rebels had a back-and-forth battle until enough Confederates joined the fight to force the 16th back and capture its flag.
Excellent New Addition to Peninsula Campaign Literature.......2004-02-21
I liked this book a lot. Finally the Seven Days' fans out there can sit down and read a very good book dedicated solely to these battles. The only thing better would be an "Ed Bearss Vicksburg Campaign" type treatment with 3,000 pages and 3 or so volumes. I know, it's a long shot, but I can dream can't I? For now, though, at least we have this book, and it's more than just a good start. The maps are extremely good and there are plenty of them! Aside from Clifford Dowdey's book, this is the only one that concentrates specifically on the Seven Days. Burton does go down to the regimental level in many cases. Since this is my favorite campaign in the whole ACW, I was extremely happy when this one came out. 534 pp., 21 maps
Worthy companion to Clifford Dowdey's Masterwork.......2002-08-03
This is, by far, the best treatment of the Seven Days since Clifford Dowdey's best book, "THE SEVEN DAYS: THE EMERGENCE OF LEE" (1964)...since re-released under a different title, "LEE TAKES COMMAND." Considering that these two titles are separated by almost 40 years, that says volumes about how Dowdey's book has stood the test of time and how Burton's modernizes the scholarship of this most important campaign. Anyone studying Lee's first campaign should own this book, and read it in conjunction with Dowdey's treatment.
The Seven Days analyzed, but not humanized........2002-04-17
I approached this book with the high expectations of a readable and thorough account of the Seven Day's battles, and mostly I think that Mr. Burton has succeeded. However, I found that it really wasn't quite as readable as I had hoped. I tended to get bogged down in the details of the book, especially in the battle scenes, which I really had high hopes for. Instead of the "you are there" realism that authors such as Gordon Rhea provide, I instead was struck by the way that the writing almost obscured the action.
Burton tends to fill his tactical descriptions with somewhat too much information, such as the location, movements and name of every single regiment on the field. Now while this is of course necessary for a good understanding of a battle, in this case it tends to overwhelm the actual fighting, leaving the sense that it is more a recitation of troop movements instead of the exciting details of a fight. The end result, at least for me, was confusion, coupled with the desire for a more intimate explanation of the battle. There just isn't a good balance between action and analysis. After having visited the battlefield, I longed to read of the breakthrough at Gaines Mill in a personal, action-oriented manner. Instead, I came away with a pretty good idea of who was where, but no sense of just what they had accomplished. The emotion is simply not there, just the facts. Perhaps emotion just tends to obscure the truths of a battle, but I like the sense of "being there", and of knowing what the soldiers were experiencing first hand. While Burton does make use of period accounts, they just aren't as effective as they could be.
To me, the whole book seemed to be geared more towards strategy and troop movements, with a minimal emphasis on the actual fighting. In this respect, it does a fine job, and is actually an entertaining read in that respect. I was just left somewhat unfulfilled that the tactical side of the book wasn't as good.
As the previous reviewer mentioned, this book is not for the beginner. A moderate knowledge of the war seems to be assumed, and provided you are a Civil War buff, this should not be a problem.
Overall, it is a pretty good book. I don't know that I would call it the definitive account of the Seven Days though. Maybe so, if you are mostly interested in the strategic side, but the battle descriptions just lack the "spark" that makes you a part of the action. If you like the writing of such authors as Gordon Rhea and John Hennessy, you might come away feeling a little unsatisfied, as I did. I would recommend this book as a good analysis of the strategy and command decisions of the campaign, but perhaps Sears' "To the Gates of Richmond" is better at the human aspects of the action.
Book Description
When General Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy was in crisis. Lee changed all that in a brilliant, week-long campaign. On 26 June the Confederates struck, fighting two hard-fought battles in two days at Mechanicsville and Gaine's Mill. The ferocity of the Confederate assaults convinced McClellan that he was outnumbered. Unable to keep the Confederates at bay, the Union army was recalled to Washington. Despite losing a quarter of his men, Lee had saved Richmond, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Army of the Potomac. This book traces the course of this short yet crucial campaign.
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Summary.......2004-10-03
Angus Konstam, a very prolific and efficient Osprey author, follows up his campaign title Fair Oaks 1862 with its sequel, Seven Days Battles 1862. This campaign title is significantly different from the earlier volume in several respects. Konstam's pro-Confederate bias is somewhat less evident than the earlier volume and he lays fair criticism against Confederate mistakes that robbed them of the chance for a decisive victory. Konstam also spends much less time in this volume discussing Union General McClellan's wavering willpower - he assumes from the start that McClellan has lost the will to win and is merely reactive to Confederate General Lee's offensive. Finally, the advent of General Robert E. Lee and the newly christened Army of Northern Virginia puts the spotlight more on Confederate forces than in the previous volume. Konstam's narrative is clean and well supported by maps and data. This is an excellent summarized military history.
The introductory sections are more succinct than usual because Konstam covered much of the same ground in the Fair Oaks volume, and readers who require more background should get both volumes. In the section on opposing plans, Konstam focuses on Lee's risky plan to strip most of the forces defending Richmond in order to achieve mass and crush McClellan's right flank, then to cut the Union lines of communication. According to Konstam, Lee's planning was aided by Union inactivity but undermined by poor Confederate staff work, lack of the corps level of command, inadequate reconnaissance and "Stonewall" Jackson's lethargic execution of orders. While Konstam is probably correct that Lee's plan was "superbly imaginative," he never really discusses what McClellan was planning. What if Lee had not attacked? Given the three weeks of Union inactivity after Fair Oaks, it is not clear that McClellan was really planning to make any further offensive moves. In fact, McClellan's approach to Richmond looks suspiciously like a "demonstration," intended to get the Rebel leaders to the negotiating table, rather than to achieve a military victory.
The maps in this volume are some of the best that I have seen in an Osprey title for a while, and they support the author's narrative. The five 2-D maps are: strategic situation in the eastern theater, June 1862; operational situation in the Virginia peninsula, 25 June 1862; Lee attacks, 26-27 June 1862; retreat to the James, 28-30 June 1862; Battle of Malvern Hill. The three 3-D BEV maps are: the Battle of Mechanicsville; the Battle of Gaine's Mill; the Battle of Frayser's Farm. The three battle scenes are: the attack of Pender's Brigade at Mechanicsville; the charge of the 4th Texas at Gaine's Mill; Union artillery at Malvern Hill. The author also provides a detailed order of battle and bibliography.
Lee's offensive resulted in five corps-size battles fought over a six-day period (the "seven days" was a bit of a misnomer, but it stuck): Mechanicsville, Gaine's Mill, Savage Station, Frayers's Farm, and Malvern Hill. Although Lee achieved his objective of removing the Union threat to the Confederate capital, he failed to destroy the Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate losses were actually heavier. Tactically, the Confederate won only a single engagement, achieved stalemates in two and were thoroughly beaten in two; a 20% success rate is not normally indicative of a successful campaign. Yet Lee's campaign was successful because McClellan decided to begin falling back from Richmond after the first battle - which was a Union victory; Konstam describes the campaign as "less a victory for the genius of Robert E. Lee and rather the result of the Union commander losing his nerve."
Several trends are apparent in this narrative that would have future implications for the Confederacy against other Union commanders. Lee was a bold, aggressive leader but his control over his subordinates was overly loose and he was willing to take risks despite inadequate intelligence about the enemy and terrain. The Confederate army had a difficult time mounting coordinated multi-unit attacks that Konstam blames on the lack of corps staff, but even once they gained corps in 1863, the same problem would appear at Gettysburg. Lee's cavalry commander, "Jeb" Stuart, gained fame by "riding around the Union army" but he actually provided little or no information on the terrain and enemy immediately in front of Lee's army - a problem that would cost the Confederacy dearly in the future. Finally, the Confederate army - for all its prowess - had great difficulty in defeating a prepared Union defense. It is often ignored that the Union army excelled at using terrain and fieldworks to build virtually impenetrable defenses and that artillery was properly used to cover obstacles. The Confederate army may have been better at operational and tactical maneuvering, but the Union army was extremely effective in the defense. Finally, Lee's health was already an issue in his first campaign, and he ceded some authority to Longstreet at Malvern Hill because he wasn't feeling well; the result was a series of stupid, uncoordinated frontal assaults that cost the Confederacy over 5,000 men. It was a preview of Picket's Charge one year later. It is also clear that the Confederacy had no answer to the quantity and quality of the Union artillery.
Book Description
During the Seven Days Campaign--the series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862--General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia routed General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Although the Confederates repulsed the powerful offensive of the Yankees, they failed to win a complete and decisive victory. The campaign had far-reaching consequences for both sides: depriving McClellan of a military decision meant the war would continue for two more years, and the chance for Southern victory would never come again. The Seven Days memorably depicts a turning point in the war and in American history.
Customer Reviews:
Somewhat Muddled........2004-01-03
Dowdey is a Southerner writing about the South's Civil War view of God, Robert E. Lee, so this effort is biased from the get go. But it is a reasonable summation of the final days of the Peninsula Campaign when George B. McClellan frittered away an early, life threatening blow to the Confederacy. So close to the Confederate Capital his troops could see Richmond's church spires, McClellan retreats despite winning the majority of the battles fought during these seven days. Lee, thrust into command after the wounding of Joe Johnston, has no strategic alternative. He has no choice but to attack. This he does with gusto.
In the face of these consistent attacks which decimate the South's army, McClelland, believing himself outnumbered, retreats and Lee's only course of action, attack, bluffs the Union commander into submission. Today most people recognize that Lee had no alternative. Equally important, most observers, North and South, are aghast at McClelland's horrific performance which he would repeat against the same antagonist at Antietam.
There is no doubt that Robert E. Lee rose to the occasion and did his very best under the most difficult circumstances. But before we deify Lee, it must be remembered that he all but destroyed his army facing a general who simply would not fight. This is an overview of those battles.
7 Days Misses the Mark.......2001-11-21
This is a serviceable account of the 1862 Peninsular campaign. Despite all the huge amont of literature on the Civil War (a lot of it redundant), there is surprisingly little on this pivotal aspect of the conflict. Mr. Dowdey writes in the talkative style of the old school historian. The supposed strength of this book is its attention to geographical detail. At times I found that the authors attention to roads and trails did not match the attention that should have been payed to the battles described. Like most Civil War historians Dowdey does not get into much detail about the tactics employed by either side. We never learn in what formations (or lack thereof) any of the troops were fighting in. The battles themselves are frequently described in rather muddled fashion. Dowdey frequently digresses in his descriptions, which further confuses the narrative flow. As a Southener Dowdey pays most attention to Southern activities. Thus we get all sorts of mini-bios on Confederate generals, but little on their Union counterparts. The chronology of events is also a bit confused. What Dowdey does well is provide a good overall description of the campaign, and he provides good insight into MacClellan's vague plans for his capture of Richmond. Dowdey is a bit hard on Joe Johnston's style of command before Lee takes over. Also the book points out well the complete lack of staff work on the part of Civil War armies in this period. European observers oftern laughed at the slip-shod attempts to provide this esstential service. None of the so-called great Civil War commanders ever appreciated this vital aspect of command. Hence the reason why armies often blundered into each other, and why the battles of the 7 Days lacked any decisive results. Dowdey's work is perhaps a bit dated, but is well written, and worth a casual read.
A well-written account of the Seven Days Battles.......2001-07-21
Clifford Dowdey's work, "The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee," is a well-written, detailed and informative record of the series of clashes between Union and Confederate forces known as the Seven Days Battles that occurred near the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in late June 1862.
Dowdey describes, in rich detail, the initial Union planning and preparations for the amphibious landing on the York Peninsula (between the James and York Rivers). He details the Union Army of the Potomac's successful landing on the York Peninsula in May 1862 and its methodical advance up the peninsula towards Richmond led by its commanding officer, Major General George B. McClellan. The Confederate forces, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston, are seen by Dowdey as ill-led as they continually retreated in successive fashion towards the outskirts of the Confederate capital and prepared themselves for a siege. Finally, with the Union Army divided north and south of the Chickahominy River, Dowdey chronicles Johnston's decision to turn on the Union forces at Seven Pines on May 31, only to fight an inconclusive battle. Johnston himself was wounded in the late hours of the battle, and his replacement was General Robert E. Lee, until that moment the military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Upon assuming command, Lee immediately devised a series of offensive strikes against the still-divided Union forces, but Dowdey argues that Lee's ultimate failure to crush the Union Army was due to a combination of many factors. Poor Confederate staff planning was in clear evidence from the beginning to the end of the Seven Days Battles. General Lee failed time and again to assume direct operational control of ever-changing battle situations where his subordinates failed to drive forward against the enemy (for example, "Stonewall" Jackson's failure to push forward his drive on the Confederate northern and left flank at the Battle of Mechaniscville). Lee was also hampered by the uneven quality of his subordinate commanders, particularly the deaf and old Theophilus Holmes, the inept Benjamin Huger and the mentally exhausted Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (who suffered, according to Dowdey, from stress fatigue). Last, but certainly not least, the surprisingly well disciplined, hard-fighting and well-led (at the brigade, divisional and corps levels) Union troops frustrated Lee's strategic and tactical battle plans at virtually every turn.
Dowdey's work provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of all of the major battles: Seven Pines, Fair Oaks Station, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage's Station and Malvern Hill. In addition, he also aids the reader by providing a series of detailed maps and descriptions of the complex web of major and minor roads and country lanes that were fundamental to the movement of the armies - Union and Confederate - during the Seven Days Battles. I found, however, one very annoying aspect about the work. I strongly disagreed with Dowdey's one-sided and dismissive view of Confederate General Joseph Johnston as a defeatist general who possessed no redeeming personal or military abilities. Johnston was clearly one of the most effective of all the Confederate generals, one whose primary concern was the care and welfare of the men under his command. He never took unnecessary risks in battle, for he knew that the Confederacy had a limited pool of available manpower with which to fight the Union.
Despite this one point of disagreement, I found Dowdey's work to be an excellent study of the Seven Days Battles. His insistence on "visual history" - that a historian must visit the battlefield that he is studying in order to more effectively understand the movements of the opposing armies, thereby aiding him in writing a work that the reader will follow clearly - is very much in evidence in this book.
An easy read with tough judgements and sharp insights.......1998-06-06
A wonderful break from the usual, with Dowdey displaying an absolute mastery of the material. McClellan (heroically) dominates the early parts, with Johnston and Magruder as fools and Lincoln and Stanton as MacBeth's witches. The author's appreciation of the North's and South's politics is outstanding and adds a livid dimension to this oft-told tale. His single failure is in the matter of comparative (numerical) strengths. Don't miss it.
Book Description
When General Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy was in crisis. General McClellan's Union army lay encamped less than ten miles from Richmond, and the Southerners were outnumbered and dispirited. Lee changed all that in a brilliant weeklong campaign. Stuart's reconnaissance in force, immortalised as his ride around McClellan's army, had revealed flaws in McClellan's dispositions. Lee used this intelligence well, and massed his outnumbered force against the Union right flank. On 26 June the Confederates struck, fighting two hard-fought and bloody battles in two days; Mechanicsville (26 June) and Gaine's Mill (27 June). Although the victories were won at a terrible human cost, the ferocity of the Confederate assaults convinced McClellan that he was outnumbered. He duly retreated towards his supply base on the James River. Lee's men pursued, and McClellan was forced to make a fighting retreat, stopping twice to delay his pursuers. Despite two more battles at Frayser's Farm (30 June) and Malvern Hill (1 July), he was unable to keep the Confederates at bay, and the Union army was recalled to Washington. Despite losing a quarter of his army in a week, Lee had saved Richmond, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Army of the Potomac. Although other victories would follow, Lee's battles in defence of the Confederate capital were crucial to the survival of the Southern cause, and won him the respect of the fighting men on both sides. Angus Konstam traces the course of this short and bloody campaign, the beginnings of Robert E. Lee's legendary reputation, and the origins of the battle-winning elan of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Customer Reviews:
a good summary about a little talked about campaign.......2003-11-20
I read this book because my library didn't have the voices of the civil war book for the 7 days campaign but this book filled in just fine and was probabbly better then the other series. this book explains the 7 Days battle in the areas around Richmond. It also tells the story of the begining of the Manassas campaign and will introduce you to battles that you might not have heard of before
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