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The Peninsular Campaign And Its Antecedents; As Developed By The Report Of Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan, And Other Published Documents

The Peninsular Campaign And Its Antecedents; As Developed By The Report Of Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan, And Other Published Documents

G. Barnard, J.

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryVietnam War

ISBN10: 9354508456
ISBN13: 9789354508455
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did the Union come so close to Richmond, yet fall back? Every dispatch changes the war. The Peninsular Campaign And Its Antecedents gathers J. G. Barnard's clear-eyed reconstruction of the Virginia 1862 campaign, built from Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. McClellan's official campaign report and other published documents. Written with an engineer's precision, Barnard draws a line from antecedent planning to battlefield outcome, showing how intelligence, river crossings, and supply routes shaped momentum. The emphasis stays on documents and reasoning, not romance, as reputations and politics collided constantly. Part narrative, part dossier, this documentary history collection lets you follow the Army of the Potomac as plans harden into orders, roads into bottlenecks, and optimism into delay. Barnard weighs union command decisions against terrain, logistics, and timing, offering a measured peninsular campaign analysis that speaks to battlefield strategy studies as much as to the human pressures of the American Civil War era. The result is both a military history reference and an invitation to a sharper union generalship critique: what was known, what was assumed, and what proved costly. Long valued by civil war researchers and readers of civil war military history, this volume stands as a rare bridge between primary paperwork and interpretive judgement, preserving the arguments that shaped later debates over Union leadership and operational art. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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