Peninsular Campaign

Peninsular Campaign

 (April 4–July 1, 1862), in the American Civil War, large-scale but unsuccessful Union effort to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Va., by way of the peninsula formed by the York and the James rivers. Following the engagement between the ironclads Monitor and Merrimack at nearby Hampton Roads (March 9), Federal supplies and 100,000 troops were disembarked at Fort Monroe under Major General George B. McClellan (McClellan, George B). The first phase of the campaign, during which the North reached the town of White House, within striking distance of Richmond, concluded with the indecisive Battle of Seven Pines (Seven Pines, Battle of) (May 31–June 1), in which Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston was seriously wounded and field command passed to Robert E. Lee (Lee, Robert E.). A second phase was characterized by three weeks of inactivity. The final phase ended triumphantly for the Confederate forces of General Lee, who forced the withdrawal of the Federal Army of the Potomac after the Seven Days' Battles (q.v.; June 25–July 1).

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