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Seven Days Battles (1862)

On the American Civil War map as “The Seven Days”

25 Jun–1 Jul 1862 — Lee, three weeks in command, attacks every day for a week and drives McClellan’s hundred thousand back from Richmond’s suburbs at a cost of 20,000 of his own men. The Union’s best early chance to end the war recedes for two years.

When
Type
Battle site
Chapter
Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days (chapter 6 of American Civil War)
Atlas
The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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Map showing Seven Days Battles (1862), battle site in The American Civil War, 1840–1877
BATTLE SITE · THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1840–1877

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