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the Seven Days Battles /

Brian K. Burton.

Bloomington :

Indiana University Press,

©2001.

1 online resource (xi, 524 pages) :

illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-524) and index.

The Nation has been making progress -- How are we to get at those people? -- The responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders -- Charging batteries is highly dangerous -- Little Powell will do his full duty today -- We're holding them, but it's getting hotter and hotter -- I have a regiment that can take it -- You have done your best to sacrifice this Army -- His only course seemed to me was to make for James River -- But what do you think? Is the enemy in large force? -- He has other important duty to perform -- Why, those men are rebels! -- We've got him -- He ... Rose and walked off in silence -- I thought I heard firing -- It is nothing when you get used to it -- We had better let him alone -- Press forward your whole line and follow up Armistead's success -- General Magruder, why did you attack? -- It was a very tedious, tiresome March -- Under ordinary circumstances the Federal Army should have been destroyed.

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The Seven Days Battles was the first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia and has been the subject of a number of fine historical treatments. None, however, is more detailed and engaging than Burton's closely observed account. It is a moment-by-moment story of the campaign that lifted Southern spirits, began Lee's ascent to fame, and almost prompted European recognition of the Confederacy.

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Extraordinary circumstances.

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Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862.

HISTORY-- United States-- Civil War Period (1850-1877)

HISTORY.

Virginia.

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