The Peninsular campaign continues: Major General George B. McClellan, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, attacks the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee.
[restored 2/16/2025]
Subsequent Events:
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 289.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 170.
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