Peninsula campaign
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The Peninsula campaign of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March to July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The oper
George B. McClellan and Joseph E. Johnston, respective commanders of the Union and Confederate armies in the Peninsula campaign
Brig. Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman
Brig. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes
Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill
Joseph E. Johnston
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Joseph Eggleston Johnston was an American military officer and politician who served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and in the Seminole Wars. After Virginia declared secessi
Peninsula campaign
…describing McClellan's battle plans from a double agent in the War Department, McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the more aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat. McClellan…
Johnston in uniform, c. 1862
Portrait by Benjamin Franklin Reinhart (c. 1860)
Johnston lived on this lot during his time in Savannah. He was visited by General Robert E. Lee.
Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston in 1869–1870