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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973.732 EAN: 9780618127139 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0618127135 Label: Mariner Books Manufacturer: Mariner Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: May 01, 2001 Publisher: Mariner Books Studio: Mariner Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: To the Gates of Richmond charts the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, General George McClellan's grand scheme to march up the Virginia Peninsula and take the Confederate capital. For three months McClellan battled his way toward Richmond, but then Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces. In seven days, Lee drove the cautious McClellan out, thereby changing the course of the war. Intelligent and well researched, To the Gates of Richmond vividly recounts one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - "Granny" Lee lights up Lil Mac's worldTo get a thorough and balanced account of the Peninsula campaign and Seven Days, you can do no better than Sears' To the Gates of Richmond. His judicious selection of primary sources and astute analysis result in a well rounded history unlikely to be surpassed. Sears is harder on McLellan than Lee or Johnston but his judgment seems sound given the circumstances of the campaign. I admit, I'm a fan of R.E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. When I want to rejoice at Lee's replacement ... Read More Rating: - Another MasterpieceReading the other books by Stephen W. Sears, I've come to expect great things from him. To sum it up simply, Sears does an exceelent job of giving you the overall picture and the up, close, and personal of the campaign that almost conquered Richmond. Starting from McClellan's original plan to transport the entire Union army that eventually only had to settle for three corps, Little Mac had a perfect oppurtunity to push up the peninsula and capture Richmond. An unnecessary siege at Yorktown prevents this ... Read More Rating:  - How and why the Union failed to win the Civil War in 1862This 1992 book is a narrative of the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 which brought a large and splendidly equipped Federal army to the outskirts of the Confederate capital and should, by all reasonable expectation, have ended the American Civil War with victory for the North. In its 468 pages of text, appendices on Federal and Confederate orders of battle, sketch maps, contemporary artists' impressions, notes and index, "To the Gates of Richmond" attempts to explain how and why that didn't happen. Read More Rating: - Sears is a great historianI first came to the writing of Stephen Sears when I read Chancellorsville, which was a truly absorbing history of the period leading up to and including that battle. Since then I have read Landscape Turned Red and Gettysburg, and now To The Gates of Richmond. They all stand up as some of the best history written about the war, and while they have some letters and personal sentiment, they are not full of the folksy yarns that Shelby Foote resorts to. I would recommend all of Sears books for anyone looking for ... Read More Rating: - War is BloodySixty thousand men lost their lives or where severely wounded in the Peninsula campaign of 1862. No question the American Civil War was a bloody affair, but this campaign was probably the bloodiest. These were kids fighting, kids who should have been in school, instead of marching into battle for the first time. This book chronicles General George McClellan's plan to take Richmond and Lee's brilliant strategy of splitting the Northern General's forces, thus stopping him. Mr. Stephen Sears has written ... Read More 
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