✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Peninsula campaign

March 1862 – July 1862 · Virginia Peninsula

Result Confederate victory

General George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac advanced up the Virginia Peninsula toward Richmond. Robert E. Lee drove it back in the Seven Days Battles, and the campaign failed.

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Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
George B. McClellan belligerent leader
Robert E. Lee belligerent leader Joseph E. Johnston belligerent leader Gustavus Woodson Smith belligerent leader

Strength and losses

Strength
88,445
Casualties
23,119
Casualties
29,298

Units

Army of the Potomac III Corps (Union Army) V Corps (Union Army) Irish Brigade (Union Army) Union Army 11th Maine Infantry Regiment 14th Infantry Regiment (United States)
Army of Northern Virginia 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

Battles 1