Ironically, Pope managed to hold off his Confederate opponents until the Army of the Potomac was beginning to reach him, before suffering a crushing defeat at the There are two McClellans.

On both days Jackson’s contribution was negligible. These two events, however, were fought as one sweeping campaign that lasted from early April to July 1st of 1862. As units from his army moved to block the Union advance, General Joseph Johnston took command of the forces defending Richmond.

Longstreet’s rear guard managed to hold off the Federal advance guard for long enough to allow the Confederate artillery and supply trains to retreat back to Richmond, before Brigadier-General Winfield Scott Hancock (commander of the First Brigade, Second Division of Keyes’s Fourth Corps) organised and led an attack that forced the Confederates to retreat from a defensive position that could have developed into another Yorktown. Every purchase supports the mission.The Majority of our funds go directly to Preservation and Education.The American Battlefield Trust is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. One attack was launched, at The Confederates were not idle. From the end of April and into May, McClellan moved his forces north into Yorktown, Virginia, where a small force of 13,000 soldiers were protecting Yorktown. One of France’s leading siege engineers, he commanded siege works in the Peninsula from December 1809 to January 1813, when he was called away to become chief engineer of the Grande Armé.

Instead, McClellan settled down for a regular siege. His intention was to ship the army from the Potomac River to Urbana on the Rappahannock River. In preparation for the offensive, McClellan had the Army of the Potomac transported by boat to Fort Monroe, Virginia in April of 1862.

Lee earned a new reputation for audacity, and he would use this to his advantage in future engagements.

The Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days’ Battles of 1862 are characterized as two separate engagements during the Civil War.

The problem that faced Lincoln was what to do next.

Despite McClellan’s slowness and the reduction in size of his army, in the days after Williamsburg the Federal army was able to take up a position so close to Richmond that the men could hear the city’s church bells.

McClellan’s army was moving in corps. McClellan had left around 38,000 men to defend Washington and the approaches. Save 22 Acres The American Battlefield Trust and our members have saved more than 52,000 acres in 24 states!Show your pride in battlefield preservation by shopping in our store. Accordingly, at the start of April Lincoln ordered it to remain close to the capitol. McClellan himself blamed sinister forces in Washington for failing to provide him with enough men or support, despite actually outnumbering his opponents for the entire campaign.On the Confederate side, the Peninsula Campaign saw the emergence of General McClellan repeatedly overestimated the number of Confederate soldiers he faced. But in fact, balloons were a formidable presence for a few years of the Civil War, used for surveillance and reconnaissance primarily by the Union but also by the Confederacy. McClellan had been under a great deal of pressure to use the impressive army he had created. McClellan was now sure that Washington was safe, and does not appear to have taken Lincoln’s requirement that the capitol should be entirely safe as seriously as he should have.

If he had been given the support he needed after the Seven Days, then the war would have been over in 1862.The second McClellan is paranoid, sluggish, possibly even a traitor. Inside the Confederate lines an immediate assault was expected, but none came.

In all, some 480,000 Allied forces took part in the Gallipoli Campaign, at a cost of more than 250,000 casualties, including some 46,000 dead. First, it meant that he had to abandon his preferred plan of a landing at Urbana, and adopt his fallback plan of a landing at Fort Monroe on the Peninsula between the James and York Rivers. In the aftermath of Williamsburg, the Union army was concentrated on the northern side of the Peninsula, near the York River, with its base at White House Landing. McClellan expected to find the main Confederate force on the Peninsula at The Union army began its march up the Peninsula on 4 April.