Peninsula Campaign – Encyclopedia Virginia
Casualties 29,600 (approximate) (27,500 killed and wounded, 2,100 caputred or missing) ENTRY SUMMARY The Peninsula Campaign, fought during the spring and summer of 1862, was an attempt by Union general-in-chief George B. McClellan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond from the southeast during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Pressured by United States president Abraham Lincoln to mount an offensive—Union forces had been dormant since the previous July—McClellan steamed his Army of the Potomac down the Chesapeake Bay, landed it at Fort Monroe, and marched it up the Peninsula...
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