The previous day, a majority of Virginia voters had ratified ... McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in the spring and summer of 1862. As general in chief of all Union armies from November 1861 ...

With the Union and Confederate capital cities so close together, it seemed common sense for the Union to use its manpower and ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and ... Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, where his huge army meets a smaller but infinitely more ...