Forward to Richmond: McClellan's Peninsular Campaign
by Ronald H. Bailey, Time-Life Books
Time-Life: The Civil War (5)
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A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Forward to Richmond: McClellan's Peninsular Campaign
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Richard Heron Anderson (as Richard H. Anderson); Lewis A. Armistead; John Jacob Astor III; William W. Averell (as William Woods Averell); Alois Babo; Edward Dickinson Baker (as Edward D. Baker) (show all 165); Nathaniel P. Banks; Francis Channing Barlow; William Francis Bartlett; Edward Bates; P. G. T. Beauregard; Alfred Bellard; Judah P. Benjamin; Hiram Berdan; Montgomery Blair; Louis Blenker; James Brady; Lawrence O'Bryan Branch; Sanford Brooks; William T. H. Brooks; Don Carlos Buell; Ambrose E. Burnside; Erasmus R. Burt; James Cameron; Simon Cameron; Thomas H. Carter; Silas Casey; Zachariah Chandler; Prince Robert, Duc de Chartres; Salmon P. Chase; Howell Cobb; Milton Cogswell; Samuel Cooper; Darius N. Couch (as Darius Couch); Jacob Cox; George Armstrong Custer; Alfred Davenport; Jefferson Davis; Richard Delafield; Charles Devens; Jubal A. Early; Thomas Egan; Nathan G. Evans; Winfield Scott Featherston; James W. Forsyth; William B. Franklin; John Charles Frémont; William H. French; Charles A. Fuller; John Gibbon; James F. Gibson; Louis M. Goldsborough; John B. Gordon; Warren Lee Goss; Ulysses S. Grant; Robert Greaves; Horace Greeley; Rose O'Neal Greenhow; Henry W. Halleck; Wade Hampton; Winfield Scott Hancock; Frederick Harvey; Clinton Hatcher; Robert Hatton; John Hay; Truman Head ('California Joe', sharpshooter); Samuel P. Heintzelmann; A. P. Hill; Daniel Harvey Hill; Ethan Allen Hitchcock; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Winslow Homer; Joseph Hooker; Charles Howard; Oliver O. Howard; Julia Ward Howe; Benjamin Huger; Alexander Hunter; Eppa Hunton; Stonewall Jackson; Micah Jenkins; Albert Sidney Johnston; Joseph E. Johnston; Prince François, Prince de Joinville; John B. Jones; Philip Kearny; James L. Kemper; Erasmus D. Keyes; Edmund Kirby; William W. Lamb; Frederick W. Lander; Henry S. Lansing; Curtis Lee; Robert E. Lee; William R. Lee; Abraham Lincoln; Tennent Lomax; James Longstreet; Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (as Thaddeus Lowe); Nathaniel Lyon; George A. McCall; George B. McClellan; Irvin McDowell; John B. Magruder (as John Bankhead Magruder); William Mahone; Randolph B. Marcy; George Gordon Meade (as George Meade); Thomas Francis Meagher; Montgomery Meigs (as Montgomery C. Meigs); Nelson A. Miles; Alfred Mordecai; George W. Morell; Napoleon III; John Newton [engineer]; John G. Nicolay; Timothy O'Meara; Prince Philippe, Comte de Paris; John J. Peck; James J. Pettigrew; Charles Philbrick; George E. Pickett; Allan Pinkerton; Andrew Porter; Fitz-John Porter; Roger E. Pryor; Hiram W. Pursell; Gabriel Rains; George W. Randolph; Paul Joseph Revere (Major, 20th Massachusetts); Israel B. Richardson; Robert R. Roddy; Robert E. Rodes; John Rodgers; William S. Rosecrans; Sir Walter Scott; Winfield Scott; John Sedgwick; Frederick D. Sewall; William Henry Seward; James Shields; Randolph Abbot Shotwell; Daniel E. Sickles; Gustavus W. Smith; William F. Smith; G. Moxley Sorrel; Edwin M. Stanton (as Edwin McMasters Stanton); Charles P. Stone; George Stoneman; J. E. B. Stuart; Edwin V. Sumner; Josiah Tattnall; George H. Thomas; Benjamin Franklin Wade; James S. Wadsworth; Orlando Wagner; Charles S. Wainwright; J. H. Hobart Ward; Alfred Waud; Reinhold Wesselhoeft; William H. C. Whiting (as W. H. C. Whiting); Cadmus M. Wilcox; Charles B. Wildman; Jacob P. Wilson; Isaac Wistar; John Wool (as John E. Wool)
- Important places
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Anacostia River, USA; Analostan Island, USA (now Theodore Roosevelt's Island); Arsenal Park, Washington, D.C., USA; Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, USA; Ball's Bluff, Virginia, USA (show all 79); Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Big Bethel, Virginia, USA; Bottom's Bridge, Virginia, USA; Burnt Chimneys, Virginia, USA; Camp Griffin, Virginia, USA; Camp Pendleton, Virginia, USA; Centreville, Virginia, USA; Chain Bridge, Potomac River, USA; Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, USA; Chickahominy River, Virginia, USA; Craney Island, Virginia, USA; Cumberland Landing, Virginia, USA; Dranesville, Virginia, USA; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, USA; Edwards Ferry, Maryland, USA; Evansport, Virginia, USA; Fairfax County, Virginia, USA; Fairfax Court House, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Fair Oaks, Virginia, USA; Fort Evans, Virginia, USA; Fort Hamilton, New York, USA; Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, USA; Fort Lafayette, New York, New York, USA; Fort Magruder, Virginia, USA; Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA; Fort Richardson, Virginia, USA; Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Fort Wool, Virginia, USA; Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA; Gaines's Mill, Virginia, USA; Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA; Gordonsville, Virginia, USA; Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, USA; Grapevine Bridge, Virginia, USA; Great Falls, Maryland, USA; Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA; Hanover County, Virginia, USA; Hanover Court House, Virginia, USA; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA; Harrison's Island, Maryland, USA; James River, Virginia, USA; Langley, Virginia, USA; Leesburg, Virginia, USA; Lee's Mill, Virginia, USA; Lee's Mill Dam, Virginia, USA; Manassas, Virginia, USA; Manassas Junction, Virginia, USA; Mechanicsville, Virginia, USA; Montgomery, Alabama, USA; Munson's Hill, Virginia, USA; Norfolk, Virginia, USA; Pamunkey River, Virginia, USA; Poolesville, Maryland, USA; Rapidan River, Virginia, USA; Rappahannock River, Virginia, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; Roanoke Island, North Carolina, USA; Seven Pines, Virginia, USA; Sewell's Point, Virginia, USA; Shenandoah Valley, USA; Smart's Mill, Virginia, USA; Vienna, Virginia, USA; Virginia Central Railroad, USA; Warwick River, Virginia, USA; Washington, D.C., USA; West Point, Virginia, USA; White House, Virginia, USA; White House Landing, Virginia, USA; White Oak Swamp, Virginia, USA; Williamsburg, Virginia, USA; Winchester, Virginia, USA; York River, Virginia, USA; Yorktown, Virginia, USA
- Important events
- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Peninsula Campaign (1862-03 | 1862-07)
- First words
- "The true course in conducting military operations is to make no movement until the preparations are as complete as circumstances will permit and never to fight a battle without some definite object worth the probable loss... (show all); such a course will ever insure the greatest economy of life, time and treasure, as well as the most decisive results."
- Major General George B. McClellan, U.S. Army
The message that was handed to George Brinton McClellan that summer day came from the President of the United States, and its tone was urgent. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He was General Robert E. Lee.
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