To the Gates of Richmond

The Peninsula Campaign

Nonfiction, History, Military
Cover of the book To the Gates of Richmond by Stephen W. Sears, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Author: Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 9780547527550
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication: November 11, 2014
Imprint: Mariner Books Language: English
Author: Stephen W. Sears
ISBN: 9780547527550
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication: November 11, 2014
Imprint: Mariner Books
Language: English

This account of McClellan’s 1862 campaign is “a wonderful book” (Ken Burns) and “military history at its best” (The New York Times Book Review).

From “the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today,” To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict’s bloodiest campaigns (Chicago Tribune). Of the 250,000 men who fought in it, only a fraction had ever been in battle before—and one in four was killed, wounded, or missing in action by the time the fighting ended.

The operation was Gen. George McClellan’s grand scheme to march up the Virginia Peninsula and take the Confederate capital. For three months McClellan battled his way toward Richmond, but then Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces. In seven days, Lee drove the cautious McClellan out, thereby changing the course, if not the outcome, of the war.

“Deserves to be a classic.” —The Washington Post

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This account of McClellan’s 1862 campaign is “a wonderful book” (Ken Burns) and “military history at its best” (The New York Times Book Review).

From “the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today,” To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict’s bloodiest campaigns (Chicago Tribune). Of the 250,000 men who fought in it, only a fraction had ever been in battle before—and one in four was killed, wounded, or missing in action by the time the fighting ended.

The operation was Gen. George McClellan’s grand scheme to march up the Virginia Peninsula and take the Confederate capital. For three months McClellan battled his way toward Richmond, but then Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces. In seven days, Lee drove the cautious McClellan out, thereby changing the course, if not the outcome, of the war.

“Deserves to be a classic.” —The Washington Post

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