Название: Yorktown's Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick
Автор: John V. Quarstein, J. Michael Moore
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 1609496566
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 4,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward Richmond. Blocking his path were Major General John B. Magruder's Warwick-Yorktown Line fortifications and the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia.
Despite outnumbering Magruder almost four to one, McClellan was tricked by Magruder's bluff of strength and halted his advance. Yorktown, the scene of Washington's 1781 victory over Cornwallis, was once again besieged. It was the Civil War's first siege and lasted for twenty-nine terrible days. Just as McClellan was ready to bombard Yorktown, the Confederates slipped away because of his delays, McClellan lost the opportunity to quickly capture Richmond and end the war.