United States General George B. McClellan is still hunkered down outside of Richmond with 105,000 Union troops. Yet Southern sentiment is a bit more positive now, as the enemy’s momentum has stalled. Today, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in command of the Army of Northern Virginia since June 1, displays the tactical boldness that will…
Union General George B. McClellan, although now on the defensive in the long-running Peninsular Campaign, is yet threatening Richmond, Virgina, the Confederate Capital. His advance to Richmond checked and earlier this month outmanuevered by Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s forces during the Battle of Seven Pines (also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks Station),…
This week, the editor of North Carolina’s Biblical Recorder assesses the perilous times at hand, referencing McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign. No one can deny that the present is a momentous period in the history of the South. The theatre of war has been narrowing down for some time past; the grand armies which, for the present,…