Assuming command of the Confederate forces, Robert E. In April of 1862, President Lincoln demanded that McClellan do something with the Army of the Potomac. McClellan, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, To the Gates of. Last Updated on May 10, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Though initially successful, McClellan's plans fell through at the gates of Richmond. Sears is the author of The Civil War Papers of George B.
The Peninsula campaign was General George McClellan's grand scheme to advance from Yorktown up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital.
Now Stephen Sears, the award-winning author of Landscape Turned Red, provides the first complete, full-length account of the campaign ever written, a masterly narrative by one of our foremost historians. More men were assembled on the Virginia Peninsula for this battle for the capital of the Confederacy than for any other operation of the war. "The Peninsula campaign of 1862 was the largest campaign of the Civil War. Select the department you want to search in. xii, 468 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations, maps 23 cm. To The Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen W.
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