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NY: Archive Society Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. navy leather-look c; All edge gilt; 219 clean, unmarked pages. facsimile edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by b&w Illustrations. 12 vo.

New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. 1881 Hard Cover. 219 pp. "The Peninsula campaign (also known as the Peninsular campaign) of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The operation, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was an amphibious turning movement against the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia, intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the more aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat. McClellan landed his army at Fort Monroe and moved northwest, up the Virginia Peninsula. Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder's defensive position on the… Read More