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June 1st One of the many that fell in the fighting on May 31st was Gen. Joseph Johnston. Ignoring pleas from staff officers he rode to the front to watch Whiting’s attack. He was struck in the right shoulder by a round and then knocked from his horse by the force of a nearby explosion. […]
Before the Seven Days – Advance to the Chickahominy Part 15
December 26th, 2012 · No Comments
Categories: Before the Seven Days (Campaign Series)
Tags: · battle of fair oaks, battle of seven pines, June 1 1862, Peninsular Campaign
Before the Seven Days – Advance to the Chickahominy Part 13
December 12th, 2012 · No Comments
Hill’s Attack MG D. H. Hill’s independent decision to begin the attack started in ragged fashion. The hasty nature of the order left the brigades scrambling to get into battles order. BG Samuel Garland’s brigade (5th NC, 23rd NC, 24th VA, 38th VA, 2nd FL, and 2nd MS Bn) advanced with the 2nd Mississippi Battalion […]
Categories: Before the Seven Days (Campaign Series)
Tags: · battle of fair oaks, battle of seven pines, may 31 1862, Peninsular Campaign
Before the Seven Days – Advance to the Chickahominy Part 12
December 5th, 2012 · No Comments
Setting the Stage for Battle The net result of the Battle of Hanover Court House was a change to the strategy of the campaign. McClellan noted that the “enemy was not in great force opposite Bottom’s Bridge” and that “it was important to secure a lodgment upon the right bank before he should have time […]
Categories: Before the Seven Days (Campaign Series)
Tags: · battle of fair oaks, battle of seven pines, may 31 1862, Peninsular Campaign
The Best Books on the Seven Days and the Peninsula
July 1st, 2012 · No Comments
Books Focusing on The Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days On this, the 150th anniversary of the last day of the Seven Days at Malvern Hill, it seemed appropriate to offer up a list of the top books on McClellan’s great effort to reach Richmond and end the war quickly from March-July 1862. The Peninsula […]
Categories: 150 Years Ago in the Civil War · Best Civil War Books · Civil War Books
Tags: · batlle of oak grove, battle of fair oaks, battle of frayser's farm, battle of gaines mill, battle of glendale, battle of hanover courthouse, battle of malvern hill, battle of mechanicsville, battle of savage's station, battle of seven pines, battle of williamsburg, brian k. burton, css virginia, extraordinary circumstances, hune 27 1862, july 1 1862, June 1 1862, june 25 1862, june 26 1862, june 28 1862, june 29 1862, june 30 1862, may 27 1862, may 31 1862, may 5 1862, peninsula campaign, seven days battles, siege of yorktown, stephen w. sears, to the gates of richmond, uss monitor
150 Years Ago, June 1862
June 18th, 2012 · No Comments
150 years ago, June 1862 The campaign season is underway and the armies are on the move. This June victory seems very close in Washington. At Seven Pines the Confederates under Gustavus W. Smith continue attacking the isolated II and IV Corps. Robert E. Lee orders the attacks stopped late in the day. Smith, in […]
Categories: 150 Years Ago in the Civil War
Tags: · ashby turner, battle of cross keys, battle of gaines mill, battle of glendale, battle of golding's farm, battle of memphis, battle of oak grove, battle of port republic, battle of savage's station, battle of secessionville, battle of seven pines, braxton bragg, fort pillow, john pope, june 1862
862cj: Union Army Battle of Fair Oaks 31 May – 1 June 1862
May 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Back to the George Nafziger American Civil War Order of Battle Collection Union Army Battle of Fair Oaks https://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/wp-admin/post-new.php 31 May – 1 June 1862 Commanding General: Major General George B.McClellan II Army Corps: Major General E.V.Sumner Provost Guard: K/6th New York Cavalry 1st Division: Major General I.B.Richardson 1st Brigade: Brigadier General O.O.Howard 5th New […]
Categories: May 1862
Tags: · 1862, army of the potomac, battle of fair oaks, battle of seven pines, civil war order of battle, nafziger collection
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