Product Description
As new condition navy blue linen boards with silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition illustrated dust jacket.
Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Bibliographic Essay; Contributors; and Index.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white drawings and maps.
Signed, inscribed, and dated (12/8/2000) by the editor, Gary W.
Gallagher, with black pen on the blank first free front endpaper.
"The Richmond Campaign of 1862 is a valuable contribution to our understanding of those traumatic events on the Peninsula and during the Seven Days.
Several essays plow fresh ground by broadening our perspective of the campaigns into politics and race, with thorough research and keen analysis .
Should find its way into the library of anyone interested in the War in the East.
" - Joseph T.
Glatthaar, author.
"These essays probe longstanding questions and flesh out credible answers relative to the first major offensive of Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
This is a necessary reference for any study of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.
" - James I Robertson Jr.
, author.
"The Richmond Campaign of 1862 adds valable new information and insights into some old subjects and presents useful information and interpretations about subjects that never have been adequately dealt with before .
A book from which all serious students of the Civil War can benefit.
Highly recommended.
" - Albert Castel, author.
"The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War.
Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E.
Lee and George B.
McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers.
The climactic clash came on June 26-July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days battles, when Lee, newly appointed as commander of the Confederate forces, aggressively attacked the Union army.
Casualties for the entire campaign exceeded 50,000, more than 35,000 of whom fell during the Seven Days.
The Richmond campaign is significant not just for the ferocity of the fighting, but also because it propelled Lee to the fore, where he immediately altered the strategic picture by dictating the action to a compliant McClellan.
In addition, it raised the spirits of Confederate civilians, numbed by dismal news from other fronts, and dashed Union expectations of victory that had mounted steadily since the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson earlier in 1862.
This book offers nine essays that explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign.
The authors, all well-known Civil War historians, have consulted previously untapped manuscript sources and reinterpreted more familiar evidence, sometimes focusing closely on the fighting around Richmond and sometimes looking more broadly at the background and.
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