The Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines begins: Major General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, attacks the invading compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George B. McClellan.
Postscript: The following day, McClellan retreated from the battlefield, despite having a larger army and losing over a thousand less troops than Johnston. Over 11,000 Americans lost their lives.
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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.
American Civil War, 1862
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