Posted on 06/30/2010 4:36:20 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
Jun 30, 1862:
Battle of Glendale (White Oak Swamp)
The Seven Days' Battles continues at Glendale (White Oak Swamp), Virginia, as Robert E. Lee has a chance to deal a decisive blow against George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had already won the Seven Days' Battles, but the Confederates' attempt to rout McClellan cost many Southern casualties.
The Seven Days' Battles were the climax of McClellan's Peninsular campaign. For two months, the Union army sailed down Chesapeake Bay and then inched up the James Peninsula. In late June, the two forces began a series of clashes in which McClellan became unnerved and began to retreat to his base at Harrison's Landing on the James River. Lee hounded him on the retreat.
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Lovely but yet haunting piece of music. Ken Burns turned me on to it, and my love of that song grows each time I hear it. Thanks for the link, that is a fantastic version of it.
The soundtrack CD of KB’s “The Civil War” is worth having just for the rendition of “We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder”.
You talked me into it.
:’) It’s a remarkable irony that the Battle of Gettysburg had the chronology that it did.
Thanks NCD.
Hopefully the renewed in interest in the Civil War will continue to grow during the 150th anniversaries.
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