(Nearly a quarter of the men involved were killed, wounded or missing). It was the largest campaign of the war, and comprised some of the bloodiest fighting. The Peninsula Campaign was General George McClellan’s ill-fated and tragicomic attempt to seize the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. My wife, meanwhile, would be painting this scene in watercolors.īut enough about me and my totally normal conception of fairness. If it were, I would be living in a lighthouse and would spend my days on the beach being handfed éclairs by tuxedo-clad monkeys while reading Civil War books.
But when compared with Guelzo’s bracing new history (and yes, I know, the books were written at different times, about different battles), it’s hopelessly old fashioned. To the contrary, it is sturdy and dependable, just like the Honda Civic you drove back in high school. Stephen Sears’ To the Gates of Richmond, about George McClellan’s failed Peninsula Campaign of 1862, is not a bad book. It really isn’t fair that I read this book – and am now rating it – after having read Allen Guelzo’s Gettysburg: The Last Invasion.
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