The Peninsular campaign begins: Major General George B. McClellan, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, lands at Yorktown, Virginia beginning his bid to take Richmond, the Confederate capital.
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Subsequent Events:
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 288.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 169.
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