| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gary W. Gallagher, editor. The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days. (Military Campaigns of the Civil War.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 272. $34.95.

In the never-ending exploration of Civil War military history, some battles and campaigns receive a disproportionate amount of attention. Gettysburg, for example, remains a favorite with many writers; recently Chattanooga was the subject of several treatments. But other campaigns deserve a closer look, not necessarily because scholars will offer markedly different analyses of battlefield tactics and operational movements but because of the wider context in which the campaigns took place and their impacts on the course of the war. Such is the case with the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. George B. McClellan's failure to take the Confederate capital at Richmond dashed hopes for a short, limited conflict; in its aftermath, Republicans and abolitionists pushed the Lincoln administration toward taking a firmer stand against slavery. The campaign also saw the emergence of Robert E. Lee as a battlefield commander, the fortuitous consequence of Joseph E. Johnston receiving a disabling wound. In short, the campaign proved important as much for what did not happen as for what did: it proved that Confederate victories in the east exercised a disproportionate influence on evaluations of the progress of the war, wiping out the impact of several months of Union victories in the west. . . .

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