The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields)

Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia—as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson worked together. In this guidebook, the acknowledged expert on the Seven Days Battles conducts readers, tourists, and armchair travelers through the history and terrain of this pivotal series of Civil War battles. Maps and descriptive overviews of the battles guide readers to key locales and evoke a sense of what participants on either side saw in 1862. From the beginning of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, which culminated in the Seven Days, to the bloody battles that saved the Confederate capital from capture, this guide unfolds the strategies, routes, and key engagements of this critical campaign, offering today’s visitors and Civil War enthusiasts the clearest picture yet of what happened during the Seven Days.

• Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields)
• Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend
• Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles
• To The Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
• Manassas: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields)
• Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields)
• Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
• Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The Seven Days’ Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)
• The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
• Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields)