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  Seven Days Battles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia, in the American Civil War.
It is sometimes known erroneously as the Seven Days Campaign, but it was actually the culmination of the Peninsula Campaign, not a separate campaign in its own right.
The Peninsula Campaign was the unsuccessful attempt by Union Major General George B. McClellan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond and end the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seven_Days_Battles   (827 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Seven Days ended with McClellan's army in relative safety next to the James River, having suffered almost 16,000 casualties during the retreat.
The Peninsula Campaign was the unsuccessful attempt by McClellan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond and end the war.
Almost 200,000 men were in the armies that fought in the Seven Days Battles, although the inexperience or caution of the generals involved often prevented the appropriate concentration of forces and mass necessary for decisive tactical victories.
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 Seven Days Campaign: Malvern Hill: By Few
It was the first time in the whole Seven Days Campaign that the whole AOP was fighting together.
The order for the confederate attack that day would be one that has been debated over the years to a great extent.
The Union artillery fire, and on a much lesser scale, the gunboats, pummeled the confederate lines that day and were described as the worst in the war, shaking the ground in awe.
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 Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - The Seven Days Battles (Seven Days Campaign)
Near the end of the Peninsula Campaign (March-June 1862), Confederate GEN Robert E. Lee, hoping to avoid a Union siege of Richmond, decided to go on the offensive against the menacing Federal Army of the Potomac (100,000+ men - MG George B. McClellan, commanding), now within 7 miles of the Confederate capital.
The Seven Days began on 25 June with an indecisive secondary engagement at Oak Grove (or King's School House).
The next day (26 June) Lee ordered three divisions (14,000+ men - MG A.P. Hill, MG D.H. Hill, and MG James Longstreet, commanding) to assault the entrenched front of the Federal V Corps (15,000+ men - BG Fitz-John Porter, commanding) at Beaver Dam Creek across the Chickahominy River near Mechanicsville (northeast of Richmond).
www.batteryb.com /battles/seven_days.html   (867 words)

  
 Seven Days Battles -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near (Click link for more info and facts about Richmond, Virginia) Richmond, Virginia, in the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
It is sometimes known erroneously as the Seven Days Campaign, but it was actually the culmination of the (Click link for more info and facts about Peninsula Campaign) Peninsula Campaign, not a separate campaign in its own right.
It was a tactical draw, but it had wide-ranging consequences for the war—Johnston was wounded and replaced by the much more aggressive General (American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)) Robert E. Lee.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/seven_days_battles.htm   (885 words)

  
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White House on the Pamunkey and the Peninsula Campaign in Virginia, 1862.
Gallagher, Gary W. The Richmond Campaign of 1862: the Peninsula and the Seven Days.
The Peninsular Campaign, as McClellan's major campaign and mistake, is covered extensively through several chapters, providing military background, and events surrounding his march up the Peninsula and battles around Richmond.
www.unc.edu /~jemanuel/pathfinder/home.html   (2610 words)

  
 Decision Games - Seven Days Battles
The Seven Days includes four battles of the Civil War, plus a campaign game that combines all four maps into one game that covers the entire campaign.
Each game is divided into basic, advanced, and campaign rules to provide a span of simplicity and detail for every experience level.
Seven Pines Before the start of the Seven Days campaign, George McClellan had marched to within sight of the church spires of Richmond.
decisiongames.com /civ/seven/seven.htm   (186 words)

  
 Dean Nation: Trippi in trouble?
Seven Days has learned that the disaster in Hawkeye Country last week caused a major realignment of Dean for America’s campaign hierarchy.
Sources tell Seven Days that Campaign Manager Joe Trippi, the colorful Internet whiz who led the longshot Vermonter’s meteoric rise, has had his own wings plucked.
Campaign staff shakeups are common to all the other campaigns - most notably front-runner Kerry.
dean2004.blogspot.com /2004/01/trippi-in-trouble.html   (461 words)

  
 Stonewall Jackson's Report of the Seven Days Battles
The subsequent Seven Days Battles drove the Federals into retreat and compelled McClellan and his army to cower in their fortified camp at Harrison's Landing on the James River.
It has been suggested that his lack of drive in the campaign was the result of physical near-exhaustion caused by too many nights in succession without adequate sleep.
As our route that day inclined toward the south and brought us in the direction, but to the left, of Mechanicsville, we distinctly heard the rapid and continued discharges of cannon, announcing the engagement of General A. Hill with the extreme right of the enemy.
www.swcivilwar.com /JacksonSevenDaysReport.html   (3966 words)

  
 Freeman Marker Inscriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This was the Third Battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign.
The residence of the Methodist minister, situated near this spot, was a landmark of the Battle of Malvern Hill and was directly in the line of advance of D.H. Hill's division southward against the Federal positions around the Crew house.
Begun after the Battle of Seven Pines and subsequently much strengthened, the Eastern face of this line was a continuous earthwork from the James to the Chickahominy River.
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 Seven Days: Tarrant Campaign Gets Personal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Campaign Manager Tim Lennon made it perfectly clear that the campaign's opening phase of smiles and sweet talk is over.
The campaign manager for the richest man in Vermont charged that the longtime Green Mountain champion of the working class was "using one's office to benefit one's personal good." Congressman Sanders, said Lennon, "was making money off of his wife's actions.
Sanders had to be getting some corporate benefit from her campaign ad-placement role in her old man's campaign.
www.sevendaysvt.com /columns/inside-track-politics/2006/tarrant-campaign-gets-personal.html   (2150 words)

  
 Clash of Arms Lee Takes Command   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In June, 1862 Robert E. Lee is chosen to command all Confederate forces defending Richmond against The Army of the Potomac under the command of George "Little Mac" McClellan.
In the ensuing campaign, known as the Seven Days Battles, Lee flings his men into attack after attack, always threatening to, but never quite succeeding in, crush the federals.
Lee Takes Command brings the struggle of the Seven Days campaign alive with a four color 34" x 22" map and 240 multi-color counters.
www.clashofarms.com /seven-days.html   (220 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Seven Days battles (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Seven Days battles, in the American Civil War, the week-long Confederate counter-offensive (June 26–July 2, 1862) near Richmond, Va., that ended the Peninsular campaign.
In the battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, the Union troops repeatedly repulsed the Confederate attacks in some of the hardest fighting of the war.
On the next day, however, McClellan, declining to take the offensive, withdrew to Harrison's Landing on the James River, and the Peninsular campaign was over.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SevenDay.html   (513 words)

  
 GEORGE EDWARD PICKETT, CSA
Seven Days, Gaines' Mill, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, New Berne, Petersburg, Five Forks and Sayler's Creek.
James Longstreet in the Seven Days' Campaign, and was wounded at Gaines' Mill.
Thereafter, Pickett's military reputation declined and, after fighting in the Battles of New Berne, Petersburg Five Forks and Sayler's Creek, he was relieved of command by General Lee.
www.multied.com /Bio/CWcGENS/CSAPickett.html   (195 words)

  
 Robert E. Lee's Report of the Seven Days Battles
Sir: After the battle of Seven Pines the Federal Army, under General McClellan, preparatory to an advance upon Richmond, proceeded to fortify its position on the Chickahominy and to perfect the communications with its base of supplies near the head of York River.
It was deemed inexpedient to attack him, and in view of the condition of our troops, who had been marching and fighting almost incessantly for seven days under the most trying circumstances, it was determined to withdraw, in order to afford them the repose of which they stood so much in need.
Several days were spent in collecting arms and other property abandoned by the enemy, and in the mean time some artillery and cavalry were sent below Westover to annoy his transports.
www.swcivilwar.com /LeeSevenDays.html   (5250 words)

  
 AltWeeklies.com: Politics: Seven Days: Presidential Campaign): McCanvassing? DNC Wages a “Grassroots” Campaign in ...
She appears both confident and articulate as she presents her case: George W. Bush is amassing the largest campaign war chest in history, and if the Democrats have any hope of matching it, they need my help.
During the third quarter of 2003, when his campaign set a record by raising $14.8 million in one quarter during a primary season, Dean’s average contribution was $73.69.
That the DNC is waging this campaign under the “grassroots” banner puzzles Patty McIntosh.
www.altweeklies.com /gyrobase/AltWeeklies/Story?oid=oid:136188   (2175 words)

  
 The American Civil War: The Seven Days Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Day by day, the Union force at Fort Monroe grew larger.
It would be the first in a series of battles known as the Seven Days Campaign.
And after a day of fierce fighting, he was forced to withdraw from the area.
www.voanews.com /specialenglish/Archive/a-2005-02-23-1-1.cfm   (1181 words)

  
 HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL 22nd
Being now battle seasoned soldiers, the 22nd entered into the Seven Days' Battle, which proved to be their worst casualties of the war.
By the end of the day, casualties numbered 9 killed, 35 wounded, 6 wounded and taken prisoners, and an additional 8 captured.
The fighting had ended and the 22nd spent a few days re sting before going back over the river to their winter camp.
www.geocities.com /Pentagon/3622/history.html   (3216 words)

  
 Henrico County - Recreation and Parks - Freeman Markers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In the field beyond this marker was fought June 29, 1862, the battle of Savage Station in which Confederate Forces under command of Major-General John B. Magruder attacked indecisively the rearquard of the Federal Army moving toward the James River.
The residence of the Methodist minister, situated near this spot, was a landmark of the Battle of Malvern Hill and was directly in the line of advance of D. Hill's division southward against the Federal positions around the Crew house July 1, 1862.
In their eastward attack of May 31, 1862 on Federal troops holding Seven Pines, Rodes' Brigade to the North, supported respectively by Rains and G. Anderson, came under heavy fire approximately at this point.
www.co.henrico.va.us /rec/freemanmarkers.htm   (1416 words)

  
 Stonewall Jackson
After two months of inconclusive skirmishes and maneuvers, Jackson opened a new campaign in late August, when he led his “foot cavalry” on the most famous of all its “rides” and destroyed the Union base at Manassas Junction.
He succeeded in surprising the rear of General Hooker's army at sunset on 2 May, following his last “ride” with his “foot cavalry.” Returning from the scene of battle that evening, his staff was mistaken for a Union scouting party in the growing darkness and was fired upon by Confederate pickets.
Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634) was laid down on Independence Day 1962 at Vallejo, Calif., by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard; launched on 30 November 1963; sponsored by Miss Julia Christian McAfee; and commissioned on 26 August 1964, Comdr.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s19/stonewall_jackson.htm   (998 words)

  
 The Seven Days' Battles Official Records and Battle(s) Descriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Seven Days' Battles Official Records and Battle(s) Descriptions
Taken from the Official Records, this is a summary of principle events for the entire Peninsular Campaign
Great chapter taken from "The Life and Campaigns of Major General JEB Stuart".
www.civilwarhome.com /sevendays.htm   (70 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Additional essays are on the great importance of the seven days battles to lift southern morale and the enhancement of the radicals position contributed to by McClellan's failures during the campaign.
The April-July 1862 Richmond campaign was a critical point in the American civil war that resulted in more than 50,000 casualties, 35,000 of whom fell in seven days (June 26 - July 1).
The Richmond Campaign Of 1862: The Peninsula and The Seven Days offers nine essays exploring questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon the politics and society of both the Union and the Confederacy, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807825522?v=glance   (1679 words)

  
 Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - The Peninsula Campaign
Impatient with the inactivity of the Union Army of the Potomac, President Lincoln ordered its commander to begin offensive operations against Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital.
After the indecisive Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) on 31 May-1 June, GEN Robert E. Lee succeeded the severely wounded Johnston.
Lee, for the first time, assumed command of the major field force soon to be known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
www.batteryb.com /battles/peninsula.html   (504 words)

  
 Battle of Malvern Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Seven Days Campaign ended with the indecisive Battle of Malvern Hill (Virginia).
General Lee had started the campaign with an attack on McClellan's Union army at Mechanicsville, Virginia, on June 26.
McClellan's Peninsular Campaign had failed and his army was withdrawn.
www.usahistory.com /wars/malvern.htm   (79 words)

  
 Engagement At Oak Grove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For three months after landing his 105,000-man Union Army of the Potomac on the tip of the Virginia peninsula, Gen. George B. McClellan had moved slowly but resolutely toward Richmond, the capital of the Confederate States.
A Union newspaper correspondent recorded that "nothing could be seen for the heavy cloud, rising up and twisting itself amongst the trees, hanging over the forrest as a pall; and then streams of fire, like angry lightnings, would flash out."
Fascinating Fact: The fighting that took place on June 25 was the first of a week-long series of battles that would become known as the Seven Days' campaign.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /battles-campaigns/1862/620625.html   (373 words)

  
 AltWeeklies.com: Politics: Seven Days: Presidential Campaign): The Dean Effect: Howard's Crowd is Branching Out
Dean notes that the challenge now is to harness the bottom-up flow of ideas that was a hallmark of his presidential campaign, while imposing some of the top-down structure necessary to keep a large national organization together.
He and his partner, David Warner (a contributor to Seven Days), headed to Barcelona for some R&R. “We arrived on the day of the terrorist attacks in Madrid,” says the 63-year-old moneyman.
These days Vermonters can spot Thayer outside her local Wal-Mart, registering voters next to a handmade sign that reads, “Your Voice Is Your Vote, Make It Loud.” She says she hasn’t campaigned for Kerry yet, but she wrote him a check.
www.altweeklies.com /gyrobase/AltWeeklies/Story?oid=oid:135493   (4247 words)

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