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The Union commander, General George B. McClellan actually defeated himself by believing his inflated estimates of the number of troops Confederate General Lee had at his disposal. The Army of Northern Virginia could field about 90,000 soldiers of all arms compared to the North's 138,000, but Lee had swung to offensive operations and this compounded McClellan's fear that his army of the Potomac would be destroyed unless he retreated and gave up his plan of capturing Richmond. It was not a case of superior Southern leadership so much as the Federal commanders belief that he was facing insurmountable odds that doomed the Peninsular Campaign of which the Seven Days battles were a part.
Source: To The Gates of Richmond, Sears, Stephen W. 1992.
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