The Peninsular campaign continues: General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Northern Virginia, abandons Yorktown, Virginia leaving it to Major General George B. McClellan, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac.
[restored 2/15/2025]
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.
Current U.s. National Debt:
