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Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The Seven Days' Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862

Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The Seven Days' Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862

Crenshaw, Doug

Paperback

Series: Emerging Civil War

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Regional: South

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ISBN10: 161121355X
ISBN13: 9781611213553
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: Jun 28 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond. Between that army and the capital of the Confederate States of America, an outnumbered Confederate force did all in its feeble power to resist--but all it could do was slow, not stop, the juggernaut.

To Southerners, the war, not yet a year old, looked lost. The Confederate government prepared to evacuate the city. The citizenry prepared for the worst.

And then the war turned.

During battle at a place called Seven Pines, an artillery shell wounded Confederate commander Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. His replacement, Gen. Robert E. Lee, stabilized the army, fended off the Federals, and then fortified the capital. Richmond must not be given up! he vowed, tears in his eyes. It shall not be given up!

Federal commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, confident of success, found himself unexpectedly hammered by a newly aggressive, newly emboldened foe. For seven days, Lee planned ambitious attacks and launched them, one after another, hoping not just to drive Federals from the gates of Richmond but to obliterate them entirely.

In Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up, historian Doug Crenshaw follows a battle so desperate that, ever-after, soldiers would remember that week simply as The Seven Days.

McClellan reeled. The tide of war turned. The Army of Northern Virginia was born.

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