✦ History

Peninsula campaign

March 1862 – July 1862

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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Battles 1

April 5 – May 4, 1862
Siege of Yorktown (1862) York County George B. McClellan, Joseph E. Johnston

Key commanders

Confederacy 3

Robert E. Lee belligerent leader Joseph E. Johnston belligerent leader Gustavus Woodson Smith belligerent leader

Union 1

George B. McClellan belligerent leader

Confederate States 1

Joseph E. Johnston military commander