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In early 1862, as the beginning of the Civil War marked its first anniversary, Major General George Brinton McClellan developed a plan for one of the most daring and complex movements of the great conflict. The promising general known as "Young Napoleon" proposed a daring maneuver to take the Confederate capital at Richmond, not by the dangerous overland route, but by an amphibious movement to the peninsula between the York and the James Rivers. If successful, the whole enterprise would circumvent Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Northern Virginia and allow McClellan to seize Richmond from the east in one masterly campaign. On 17 March 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac initiated McClellan's ambitious plan. It was the largest amphibious movement of the Civil War, consisting of 400 ships transporting 124,500 troops to Fort Monroe opposite Norfolk. Instead of becoming a brilliant campaign, it degenerated into a costly series of battles which had important implications for both sides. During the fights the reputations of several generals were ruined, other men began their rise to prominence and citizen soldiers threw down their lives attempting to learn their new trade. The Peninsula Cam

Author

Miller, William

Publisher

Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780938289098

Subjects

History, Humanities