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Battle of Seven Pines, in a Confederate newspaper...
Battle of Seven Pines, in a Confederate newspaper...
Item # 705598
June 13, 1862
THE CHARLESTON MERCURY, South Carolina, June 13, 1862
* From the origin of the American Civil War
From this stronghold of the Confederacy. War-related reports include: "The Naval Battle Off Memphis" "The News of the War--Full Yankee Accounts of the Battle of the Seven Pines" which takes over 2 columns; "From Chattanooga" "All Quite Along the Lines".
Complete as a single sheet issue with full banner masthead, loss to some blank margin at the top not touching any text, minimal fold rubbing, some foxing.
background: The Battle of Seven Pines (also called Fair Oaks), fought on May 31–June 1, 1862, was a major engagement of the Peninsula Campaign in which Confederate commander Joseph E. Johnston launched a large, poorly coordinated attack against portions of George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac near the Richmond outskirts. Heavy rains had flooded the Chickahominy River, isolating the Union IV Corps, which Johnston hoped to crush, but confused orders and difficult terrain blunted the Confederate assault; brutal fighting raged around the Seven Pines crossroads and Fair Oaks Station. Late on the first day, Johnston was severely wounded, prompting the Confederate government to place Robert E. Lee in command of the Army of Northern Virginia—a decisive turning point. Although tactically inconclusive, the battle halted McClellan’s advance and set the stage for Lee’s counteroffensive in the Seven Days Battles.
Category: Confederate
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