Word: peninsular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Palfrey Gaines Mill, and Peninsular Campaign...
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...
...Palfrey's lecture will be delivered this evening in Sever 11, at 7.30. Subject: "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaingn...
...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...