July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Imprint “Report of the Chief Signal Officer Army of the Potomac, Previous to and During the Campaign on the Peninsula, Virginia. Rendered to Major General George B. McClellan, October 21, 1862.” 76pp. octavo, Washington D.C., 1864. Detached cover, else very good condition. 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 intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond by circumventing the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia. McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat.
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