USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

KEY CIVIL WAR BATTLES IN 1862

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Did the South win the Seven Day’s Battle?

(A) No

(B) ** Yes

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Seven Days’ Battles, (June 25–July 1, 1862), series of American Civil War battles in which a Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee drove back General George B. McClellan’s Union forces and thwarted the Northern attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

Concept note-2: -Fact #8: The North won the Civil War. After four years of conflict, the major Confederate armies surrendered to the United States in April of 1865 at Appomattox Court House and Bennett Place.

Concept note-3: -Inconclusive. After fighting for two days, May 31-June 1, 1862, and failing to dislodge the Federals, the Confederate army retreated from Seven Pines. Later that day, June 1, 1862, Robert E. Lee received command of the Confederate army after Gen. Joseph E.

Concept note-4: -After pushing back Federal forces in the Battle of Glendale the day before, Confederate General Robert E. Lee attacked Union General George B. McClellan’s army in the Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862. Though a Union victory, it brought an end to the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles.