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Two Civil War maps...
Item # 701636
July 01, 1862
NEW YORK HERALD, July 1, 1862
* Seven Days Battles - near Richmond, Virginia
* Gen. George B. McClellan vs. Robert E. Lee
More than half of he front page is taken up with a very large map headed: "M'CLELLAN'S FIELD OF OPERATIONS IN VIRGINIA..." which has much detail on the Richmond vicinity.
Page 2 has a large map: "THURSDAY'S AND FRIDAY'S BATTLE FIELDS--The Scene of the Late Important Military Operations on the Chickahominy River" with related reports.
A wealth of column heads on the war are on pages 2, 3, 4 & 5.
Twelve pages, small binding indents at the spine, nice condition.
history notes: The Seven Days Battles, fought from June 25 to July 1, 1862, were a turning point in the Union’s Peninsula Campaign as General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia clashed with General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac in a series of bloody engagements outside Richmond. Beginning with minor Union gains at Oak Grove, the campaign quickly shifted as Lee launched bold counterattacks at Mechanicsville and Gaines’s Mill, where Stonewall Jackson and A. P. Hill helped drive the Federals back across the Chickahominy River. Though often costly and tactically inconclusive—at places like Savage’s Station and Glendale—Lee’s relentless pressure unnerved McClellan, who consistently overestimated Confederate strength and ordered a retreat to the James River. The final clash at Malvern Hill saw Union artillery inflict devastating losses on poorly coordinated Confederate assaults, yet McClellan still withdrew his army, effectively ending the campaign. Strategically, the Seven Days Battles saved Richmond from capture, elevated Lee’s reputation as a daring commander, and shifted the momentum of the war in the East firmly toward the Confederacy.
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