LEADER 03684nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910779826203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-06591-2 010 $a9786612065910 010 $a0-253-10844-6 035 $a(CKB)111056485406220 035 $a(EBL)129782 035 $a(OCoLC)56634948 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000152526 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159165 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152526 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10339646 035 $a(PQKB)11337781 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL129782 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565325 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206591 035 $a(OCoLC)50174739 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC129782 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485406220 100 $a20010124d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExtraordinary circumstances$b[electronic resource] $ethe Seven Days Battles /$fBrian K. Burton 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (540 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-22277-X 311 $a0-253-33963-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.473-498) and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. "The Nation Has Been Making Progress"; 2. "How Are We to Get at Those People?"; 3. "The Responsibility Cannot Be Thrown on My Shoulders"; 4. "Charging Batteries Is Highly Dangerous"; 5. "Little Powell Will Do His Full Duty To-day"; 6. "We're Holding Them, but It's Getting Hotter and Hotter"; 7. "I Have a Regiment That Can Take It"; 8. "You Have Done Your Best to Sacrifice This Army"; 9. "His Only Course Seemed to Me Was to Make for James River"; 10. "But What Do You Think? Is the Enemy in Large Force?" 327 $a11. "He Has Other Important Duty to Perform"12. "Why, Those Men Are Rebels!"; 13. "We've Got Him"; 14. "He . . . Rose and Walked Off in Silence"; 15. "I Thought I Heard Firing"; 16. "It Is Nothing When You Get Used to It"; 17. "We Had Better Let Him Alone"; 18. "Press Forward Your Whole Line and Follow Up Armistead's Success"; 19. "General Magruder, Why Did You Attack?"; 20. "It Was a Very Tedious, Tiresome March"; 21. "Under Ordinary Circumstances the Federal Army Should Have Been Destroyed"; Appendix A. Union and Confederate Troop Strengths; Appendix B. Lee's General Orders no. 75 327 $aAppendix C. Jackson's Dabbs House Conference Memorandum Appendix D. McClellan's June 28 Telegram to Stanton; Appendix E. Chilton's June 29 Message to Stuart; Appendix F. Orders of Battle; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 330 $aThe first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including ""Stonewall"" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D. H. Hill, pushed George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac from the gates of Richmond to the James River, where the Union forces reached safety. Along the way, Lee lost several opportunities to harm McClellan. The Seven Days have been the subject of numerous historical treatments, but none more de 606 $aSeven Days' Battles, Va., 1862 607 $aVirginia$xHistory 615 0$aSeven Days' Battles, Va., 1862. 676 $a973.7/32 700 $aBurton$b Brian K.$f1959-$01553233 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779826203321 996 $aExtraordinary circumstances$93813633 997 $aUNINA