![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Historians have long underappreciated the campaign’s role in emancipation. Most important, the campaign helped lead to the decision to use emancipation as a means of saving the Union. Northern armies would not get as close to Richmond for two more years, and Southerners discovered the leader whose subsequent victories helped build and sustain Confederate nationalism. Arriving just outside Richmond, the Federals enjoyed superior numbers, yet during a week of almost continuous fighting the Rebels used aggressive attacks to drive the Yankees away. Lee’s best chance to destroy the Army of the Potomac. The campaign involved the largest amphibious operation of the war and saw perhaps Robert E. During spring 1862, Major General George Brinton McClellan’s Union army advanced up the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital. ![]()
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