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Lee's rapid advance across the Peninusla dramatised the Confederates' natural soldierly skills and leadership, in stark contrast to McClellan's lacklustre performance as the Union commander, and encouraged other countries to consider backing a winner in the Confederacy.

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When was the peninsular campaign?

March 1862


What series of battles in June 1862 led George McClellan's retreat?

It was known as the Peninsular Campaign.


McClellan's disatrously unsuccessful attempt to end the war quickly by a backdoor conquest of Richmond?

This was McClellans Peninsular Campaign of 1862.


Who won the peninsular campaign?

The south


Who was the union commander for peninsular campaign?

George McClellan


What has the author Ronald H Bailey written?

Ronald H. Bailey has written: 'Forward to Richmond' -- subject(s): Peninsular Campaign, 1862 'The home front, U.S.A' -- subject(s): Social life and customs


Who was the union general associated with the peninsular campaign?

George McClellan


How many months of training did it take the Army of the Potomac to be ready for the Peninsula campaign?

From the end of July 1861 to the beginning of February 1862. After about seven months of training the Army of the Potomac was ready to be employed for the Peninsular Campaign. The operational Plan was communicated by letter to the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton on February 2, 1862. The army started to be embarked on the transportation ships on March 17,1862.


What Battlefield was figured in both the civil war and Revolutionary war?

The Battlefield of Yorktown, which saw the defeat of British General Lord Cornwallis in 1781, the onset of McClellan's' Peninsular Campaign and the seize of Yorktown on May 4, 1862.


This July 1st 1862 was the last 1862 battleof the peninsula campaign?

no


When did New Mexico Campaign happen?

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Why was battle of Yorktown called the peninsular campaign?

Yorktown is located on the northern shore of a Virginia peninsula extending into Chesapeake Bay, bounded by the York River on the north and the James River on the south. These are wide tidal rivers at this point.However I have never heard the Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown called "the peninsular campaign". There was a campaign during the American Civil War on this same peninsula in 1862 which IS called the Peninsular Campaign, involving Union and Confederate forces. This involved the effort of Federal troops under McClellan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond by approaching from the east, after landing at the tip of the Peninsula. The initial Confederate defense line the Federal troops encountered was in the vicinity of Yorktown, and some of the trenches from eighty years before were occupied again.