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Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign

by Richard Wheeler · 1986

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Uses eyewitness accounts to describe General George McClellan's ill-fated attempt to capture Richmond in 1862 and explains the impact of this military failure on the course of the Civil War.

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civil warcivil warMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 371 pages

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