The Battle of Fair Oaks: Turning Point of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign

by Robert P. Broadwater

In the spring of 1862, Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac launched a bloody offensive up the Virginia Peninsula in an effort to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. This study chronicles the pivotal but often overlooked turning point of the Peninsula Campaign--the Battle of Fair Oaks, also known as Seven Pines. At Fair Oaks, Confederate troops succeeded in driving back Union forces from the edge of Richmond before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078645878X
• ISBN13: 9780786458783
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher