Events at: National Museum of the United States Army

In the late Spring of 1862, a massive Union Army led by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan steadily advanced on the vulnerable Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia. Expecting success, the two armies clashed at Seven Pines in a bloody battle that saw thousands of casualties, which shocked both sides in this early war engagement. […]

A sweeping study of the operations on land and sea, “From the Mountains to the Bay” is the only modern scholarly work that looks at military operations in Virginia in early 1862, from the Romney Campaign that opened the year to the naval engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac to the movements and engagements fought […]