One of those military operations came to be known General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in the spring and summer of 1862. As general in chief of all Union armies from November 1861 to ...

The authors open with some background on the campaign. The failure of George McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign during the “Seven Days’ Battles,” and his withdrawal from Richmond, coupled with Lincoln’s ...

MCCLELLAN -- page 8 of his Military Commission ... "We cannot afford," he says, "a Moscow campaign." How little, when he wrote these lines in January, 1857, did the American officer imagine ...

The Battle of Gaines’ Mill was the most intense battle of the Seven Days Battles during the mid-1862 Peninsula Campaign conducted by Union General George McClellan against the Confederacy.

Episode Two begins with the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration and then follows Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula ...