Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 11 was filled to overflowing last evening with the audience assembled to hear Gen. Francis A. Palfry on "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign." The purpose which McClellan had in view when he entered upon the disastrous campaign of the Peninsular was the crushing of the Confederate forces massed in front of Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service...
...opinion of Gen. Palfry there are three things which McClellan might have done which would have saved his campaign from failure. (1) By sending strong columns to his own right to check Lee's advance and expected at ack. (2) By a counter flank attack against Jackson. (3) By a direct attack on Richmond itself. McClellan, however, did none of these things, but instead changed his base and brought on the conflict of Gaines Mill. Porter is stationed at Gaines Mill with twenty thousand men, against him are hurled the overwhelming masses of A. P. Hill's. Jackson...
...References. Swinton's Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan's Report. The Peninsular Campaign of 1862, Mil. Hist. Society of Mass. Official Reports-Army of Northern Virginia...
Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign, March to July...
...result. McClellan's Pehinsular Campaign abortive...