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Very nice animated map of the Peninsula Campaign in 1862. If you’d like a short and concise campaign summary, check it out—it’s well done.
Peninsula Campaign Animated Map
September 26th, 2018 · No Comments
Categories: Campaigns & Battles · Eastern Theater · Military History
Tags: · American Battlefield Trust, animated map, peninsula campaign
From the Engineer Depot – A Civil War Mulberry
August 25th, 2013 · No Comments
With McClellan’s grand campaign design complete it was time to move up the Virginia peninsula from Fort Monroe towards the Confederate capital of Richmond. After a climactic battle there the rebellion would be crushed. The introduction of a large Army and the logistical means required to support it from the water required careful planning. The […]
Categories: From the Engineer Depot
Tags: · d-day, engineer brigade, mobile wharf, normandy, peninsula 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
Civil War Talk Radio: April 18, 2008
April 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Air Date: 041808 Subject: Civil War Medicine Book: Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall & Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy Guest: Michael A. Flannery Summary: Professor Michael A. Flannery from the University of Alabama at Birmingham […]
Categories: Civil War Talk Radio
Tags: · 81st pennsylvania, fredericksburg, hospital steward, michael a. flannery, peninsula campaign, spencer bonsall
Review In Brief: The Battle of Hanover Court House by Michael C. Hardy
July 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Books on the Peninsula Campaign The Battle of Hanover Court House: Turning Point of the Peninsula Campaign, May 27, 1862. Michael C. Hardy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & company, Inc., Publishers, 2006. 205 pp. 13 maps. The Battle of Hanover Court House finally gets its own book in this McFarland offering of author Michael Hardy. As […]
Categories: Civil War Book Reviews · Civil War Books
Tags: · McFarland & Company, michael c. hardy, peninsula campaign, the battle of hanover court house
CRISIS Strategic Wargaming System
November 15th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Operational scale Civil War wargames for the PC are about as rare as you can get. CRISIS, a game system designed by Dutch Owen in the 1990s, is probably as close as you can get. The URL is: http://museum.sysun.com/crisis/index.html Although the game appears primitive at first glance (note the early 1990s graphics!) and the interface […]
Categories: Civil War Games - Info
Tags: · atlanta campaign, CRISIS strategic wargaming system, peninsula campaign
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