Word: richmonds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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, and are approximately correct. McClellan...
...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's and Longstreet's divisions...
...Purpose of the operations. To capture Richmond and crush the Confederate army in the Eastern zone...
...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...effect of withholding McDowell from McClellan. What McClellan should have done after the battle of May 31 and June 1. What McClellan should have done when at tacked on his right by Lee, June 27, 1862, etc., etc., etc. Especially question of possibility of McClellan's moving on Richmond by the James, in (say) August...