SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES: SAVAGE’S STATION
In which we look at the next clash of the Seven Days’ Campaign: Savage’s Station (June29, 1862).
Our book recommendation for this episode is “To the Gates of Richmond” by Stephen W, Sears.
SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES: THE RETREAT TO THE JAMES
In which we look at the aftermath of the Battle of Gaines’s Mill, which took place on June 27, 1862.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Mr. Lincoln’s Army” by Bruce Catton.
SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES: GAINES’S MILL (Part the Third)
In which we conclude our discussion of the third battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign: Gaines’s Mill (June 27, 1862).
Our book recommendation for this episode is “The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula & the Seven Days” edited by Gary W. Gallagher.
SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES: GAINES’S MILL (Part the Second)
In which we continue our discussion of the third battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign: Gaines’s Mill (June 27, 1862).
Our book recommendation for this episode is “The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee” by Clifford Dowdey.
SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES: GAINES’S MILL (Part the First)
In which we look at the third battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign: Gaines’s Mill (June 27, 1862).
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Seven Days Battles 1862: Lee’s Defense of Richmond” by Angus Konstam (Osprey Campaign Series).
LEE TAKES COMMAND
In which we set the stage for the Seven Days’ Battles (June 25- July 1, 1862) by looking at Jefferson Davis’s decision to appoint Robert E. Lee to command the Confederate army defending Richmond.
Our book recommendation for this episode isn’t a book! It’s The Great Courses’ “Robert E. Lee and His High Command,” which is a series of twelve lectures by Gary W. Gallagher.
PENINSULA CAMPAIGN: Fair Oaks (Part the First)
In which we start to look at the Battle of Fair Oaks, which took place outside Richmond on May 31 & June 1, 1862.
Our book recommendation for this episode is Fair Oaks 1862: McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign by Angus Konstam.
PENINSULA CAMPAIGN (Part the Fifth)
In which we look at the First Battle of Drewry’s Bluff on May 15, 1862 and we also discuss the slow but steady march of the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula as it closes in on Richmond.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Ships of the Civil War (1861-1865): An Illustrated Guide to the Fighting vessels of the Union and the Confederacy” by Kevin J. Dougherty.