Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles

Contents......Page 6
List of Maps......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
CHAPTER 1 “The Nation Has Been Making Progress”......Page 16
CHAPTER 2 “How Are We to Get at Those People?”......Page 42
CHAPTER 3 “The Responsibility Cannot Be Thrown on My Shoulders”......Page 56
CHAPTER 4 “Charging Batteries Is Highly Dangerous”......Page 73
CHAPTER 5 “Little Powell Will Do His Full Duty To-day”......Page 97
CHAPTER 6 “We’re Holding Them, but It’s Getting Hotter and Hotter”......Page 115
CHAPTER 7 “I Have a Regiment That Can Take It”......Page 132
CHAPTER 8 “You Have Done Your Best to Sacrifice This Army”......Page 153
CHAPTER 9 “His Only Course Seemed to Me Was to Make for James River”......Page 168
CHAPTER 10 “But What Do You Think? Is the Enemy in Large Force?”......Page 193
CHAPTER 11 “He Has Other Important Duty to Perform”......Page 209
CHAPTER 12 “Why, Those Men Are Rebels!”......Page 227
CHAPTER 13 “We’ve Got Him”......Page 245
CHAPTER 14 “He . . . Rose and Walked Off in Silence”......Page 264
CHAPTER 15 “I Thought I Heard Firing”......Page 279
CHAPTER 16 “It Is Nothing When You Get Used to It”......Page 296
CHAPTER 17 “We Had Better Let Him Alone”......Page 321
CHAPTER 18 “Press Forward Your Whole Line and Follow Up Armistead’s Success”......Page 339
CHAPTER 19 “General Magruder, Why Did You Attack?”......Page 356
CHAPTER 20 “It Was a Very Tedious, Tiresome March”......Page 380
CHAPTER 21 “Under Ordinary Circumstances the Federal Army Should Have Been Destroyed”......Page 401
Appendix A. Union and Confederate Troop Strengths......Page 416
Appendix B. Lee’s General Orders no. 75......Page 419
Appendix C. Jackson’s Dabbs House Conference......Page 421
Appendix D. McClellan’s June 28 Telegram to Stanton......Page 422
Appendix E. Chilton’s June 29 Message to Stuart......Page 424
Appendix F. Orders of Battle......Page 425
Notes......Page 436
Bibliography......Page 488
Index......Page 514
About the Author......Page 540