To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

Name: To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
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Rating: 4.6 (379 reviews)
Author: Stephen W. Sears

by Stephen W. Sears

Biography Memoir

4.6 (379)

4.6 stars from 379 reviews

480 pages~8 hr readPublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference PublishersPublished 1992-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You want a granular, tactical account of a pivotal Civil War campaign written by a historian Ken Burns trusts.
You're interested in how individual leadership decisions cascade through military operations and reshape history.
You appreciate meticulously researched narrative history that doesn't shy away from showing incompetence and miscalculation at the highest levels.

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You prefer broad surveys of the entire Civil War rather than deep dives into single campaigns.
You want a book that celebrates military genius rather than examining the human and logistical messiness of actual warfare.
You're looking for a quick read; this is 480 pages of dense, detailed military history.

About this book

This account examines McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, a major Civil War operation involving 250,000 men, most of whom had never seen battle before. One in four soldiers was killed, wounded, or missing by the campaign's end. McClellan devised a plan to march up the Peninsula and capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. For three months he advanced toward the city, but when Robert E. Lee assumed command of Confederate forces, the situation shifted. In seven days, Lee forced the cautious McClellan to withdraw, altering the war's trajectory. Stephen W. Sears provides a detailed military history of this pivotal campaign and its key commanders.

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