| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles. By Brian K. Burton. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xiv, 524 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33963-4.)

The fact that Brian K. Burton is an associate professor of management at Western Washington University and has authored a book on the Civil War should not surprise anyone. The fascination with the Civil War continues to draw scholars from an array of disciplines. In this study of the Seven Days battles, Burton handles the complex campaign and battle maneuvers with admirable skill, and the end result does him credit. 1

Seven Days was a name given to a series of engagements that opened on June 25 and lasted until July 1, 1862. Fought to the east and southeast of Richmond, the daily battles took place at Oak Grove, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Garnett's and Golding's farms, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill. Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia against George B. McClellan's mammoth Army of the Potomac. In one of the most daring and significant feats of the war, the Confederate Jeb Stuart had conducted a cavalry ride around McClellan's entire army. From Stuart's ride Lee ascertained that, although McClellan had positioned most of his army south of the Chickahominy River in an attempt to strike at Richmond, he had left a reinforced corps (Fitz-John Porter's thirty thousand soldiers) on the north bank. . . .

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