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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

Continued from June 26 (reply #37).

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from May 31 (reply #4).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4067504/posts#4

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas map and “Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #44
“Team of Rivals,” #45
“Lee,” #46
John G. Nicolay, #47
George Templeton Strong, #48
Mary B. Chesnut, #49
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #50

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Gaine’s Mill – 2:30 p.m.

Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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Major-General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 27, 1862 – 8 p.m. (“Attacked by greatly superior numbers in all directions on this side; we still hold our own, though a very heavy fire is still kept up on the left bank of Chickahominy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_6648.html

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Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 27, 1862 – 10 p.m. (“The carnage is frightful. General Jackson has joined General Lee, and nearly the whole army on both sides were engaged. The enemy had retired before our troops to their strong works near Gaines’s Mill.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-27-1862_22.html